Cover of Machers and rockers

Machers and rockers

Chess Records and the business of rock & roll

by Rich Cohen

2004 220 pages eng

"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 Diddley and Chuck Berry added a dose…

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