Chess Records’ Acoustic Sounds Series is set to release Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘The Real Folk Blues’ albums on ...

Phil Chess, who co-founded legendary Chicago rhythm and blues label Chess Records, has died at age 95 at his home in Arizona. Chess Records roster included Etta James, Howlin’ Wolf, Ike Turner, Bo ...

Bad As Me and the new 4 cd set of Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf (1910-1976). It’s called Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters. The two singers, though separated by a ...

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 ...

Delta blues music has traveled far and these standards by Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly forever changed rock ...

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 ...

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CHICAGO (AP) — Phil Chess, co-founder of a Chicago record label that amassed perhaps the most influential blues catalog of all time and launched the careers of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, has died.

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 ...