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Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock and Roll
Machers and Rockers Chess Records and the Business of Rock and Roll
Author: Rich Cohen
A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry. 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. Soo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781422355886
ISBN-10: 1422355888
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 220
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Publisher: Norton, W.W.
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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