It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

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The blues is a family business for Marshall Chess. His father, Leonard Chess, co-founded the legendary Chess Records label of Chicago in 1950. And, boy, did they release music - Chuck Berry, Muddy ...

In 1957, at the age of just 21, Buddy Guy left Louisiana for Chicago in search of the blues. Born to sharecroppers in Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi border, Guy worked on the farm ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Phil Chess, co-founder of a Chicago record label that amassed perhaps the most influential blues catalog, has died. He was 95. Nephew Craig Glicken told the Chicago Sun-Times on ...

Seventy-five years ago, an upstart label called Chess Records began issuing electrified blues, thereby rewiring the sound of American music. Founded in Chicago by two Jewish immigrants from Poland, ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

Narrated by an ageing Big Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer), Cadillac Records steps back in time to the '40s to introduce the principal characters: guitar man Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), who ...