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Machers and Rockers: Chess Records and the Business of Rock Roll (Enterprise)
Machers and Rockers Chess Records and the Business of Rock Roll - Enterprise
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. Soon ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393052800
ISBN-10: 039305280X
Publication Date: 9/30/2004
Pages: 220
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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Gives a great thorough insight to compliment the movie and gives more indepth perception on Leonard & PHil Chess, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Lil' Walter, and other portrayed in the movie...Great read.


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