Other fundamental names for the blues music industry and its diffusion from the sixties such as Jim O'Neal of Rooster Records and also Living Blues magazine founder, Michael Frank, owner of Earwig Records as well as Bruce Kaplan of Flying Fish Records were under the dome of Bob Koester and Delmark Records. In the early-seventies, Bruce Iglauer proposed Koester about recording Hound Dog Taylor. After rejection due to liquidity problems, Iglauer produced the recording sessions and released the album on the label he had just founded, Alligator Records. In this sense, Koester and Delmark have had an almost hegemonic role so that blues music has had the necessary support to maintain an active and balanced industry while providing artists with the capacity and resources to show their full potential as musicians. The most important thing may have been to lay the foundations so that the entire cultural legacy of African-American music could face with guarantees a future in which roots music would have to protect itself from the avalanche that was coming with the explosion of rock music and appropriation of this by the young and new generations destined to be the great consumers of music in the following decades.