Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll

by Rich Cohen

Book Overview

On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393327507
• ISBN13: 9780393327502
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"