It's 1963, and the music world is changing faster than just about anyone can keep up with. Folk singer Bob Dylan, walking down a road paved by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and acoustic blues ...

In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago’s Black blues performers made the records ...

CHICAGO Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, who with brother Leonard helped launch the careers of Chuck Berry, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and others and amassed a catalog of rock and electric Chicago ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Who Do You Love" is the second recent film to tell the story of Chess Records and its role in popularizing Southern-flavored blues and later acting as midwife to ...

Like just about everything Marshall Chess discusses during a 45-minute zoom, the story behind his upcoming album New Moves is long, complicated, full of record-business drama and enthusiastically ...

After Hollywood's huge success with "Dreamgirls," the thinly fictionalized story of legendary soul/R&B label Motown, along comes "Cadillac Records." This musical biopic goes one step further back in ...

The movie Cadillac Records enlists an all-star cast — including Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright and Beyonce Knowles — to tell the story of Chess Records, a label synonymous with classic blues and early ...

The band will be paying tribute to the original spirit of Chess Records with the original set 'New Moves,' due this Spring. Like just about everything Marshall Chess discusses during a 45-minute zoom, ...

Phil Chess, the co-founder of the influential Chicago record label that was home to Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Willie Dixon, Howling’ Wolf and many other blues and R&B heavyweights, has ...