Chuck Berry’s debut album After School Session and Chicago “Queen of Blues” Koko Taylor’s self titled record are getting reissues through Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds
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Muddy Waters’ Muddy Waters at Newport 1960, a live album capturing the blues legend’s Newport Jazz Festival set of that year, is coming to Chess
Unlike the two other famous guitar-playing Kings in blues music – B.B. and Freddie – Albert King wasn’t born with a regal name. He was,
Two more titles are joining Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds Series: Chuck Berry‘s St. Louis To Liverpool and Etta James‘s Tell Mama. Both titles will be
In 1969, when the Alabama blues pioneer Big Mama Thornton inked a deal with Chicago’s Mercury Records to record her third album, Stronger Than Dirt,
He couldn’t boast the effortless authority of Muddy Waters. He wasn’t an outlandish marketable character like Bo Diddley. He couldn’t terrify you from across the
Towards the end of her life, Janis Joplin made a magnanimous gesture that confirmed her debt to an artist who was one of her greatest
Rock was changing fast in 1968. The concept album was in the air, a development encouraged by Sgt Pepper’s the previous year (though nobody seemed
Few rock bands of the ’60s were as symphonic sounding as the Moody Blues, as evidenced throughout their classic 1967 album, Days of Future Passed.
One of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) was a legendary blues musician, whose influence spanned multiple