First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

To assign a number to Bo Diddley would be impossible. The guitar great’s influence on rock and roll, blues, and R&B is immeasurable and can still be pinpointed in some of today’s biggest hits. His ...

Bo Diddley was not a happy camper while he lived, so there is not a chance in a hundred that he went gently when he died of heart failure on Monday. Diddley (born Ellas Bates, later changed to Ellas ...

101 Long Distance Call / Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters. Guitar,Harmonica. 102 Who Do You Love? / Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters. Guitar,Harmonica. 103 I'm a Man / Bo Diddley, Little ...

Along with early Mississippi migrants Muddy Waters, Son House, and Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon was a key figure and an early pioneer in the formation of the Chicago blues sound by the 1940s.

Earlier this year MCA acquired a national treasure — the catalog of Chess Records, arguably the finest single collection of Chicago blues and early rock & roll, including the classic recordings of ...

ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons detailed a new solo album, The Big Bad Blues, out September 21st via Concord Records. He previewed the LP with a cover of blues legend Muddy Waters‘ “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” ...