In 1955 a down-and-out blues singer from St. Louis walked into the Chess Records office on South Michigan Avenue and played a country-tinged song called ”Ida Red.” Renamed ”Maybelline,” the song made ...

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Reporting from Chicago — 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, ...

The South Side studio where musicians such as Muddy Waters recorded the rough-and-tumble music that became known as ”Chicago Blues” became an official city landmark Wednesday. The Chess Records Office ...

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 amass-ed a catalog of rock and electric ...

Phil Chess, the co-founder of Chicago’s great Chess Records who died Tuesday at age 95, was the quieter of the brothers who started the label that launched the careers of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Phil Chess, co-founder of Chicago's Chess Records, a label said to have help invent rock 'n' roll, has died at 95. Chess was one of two Chicago brothers who helped change American ...

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And let's remember a man who brought blues to music fans across the country. Phil Chess has died at age 95. He co-founded Chess Records, the Chicago label that was home to Etta James and Muddy Waters ...