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The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll (Enterprise)
The Record Men The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock Roll - Enterprise Author:Rich Cohen "Brilliant the best book I have ever read about the recording industry a classic."Larry King — On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrantsone a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippimet and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, ... more »and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born.
In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar businessaggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. 12 illustrations. Originally published in hardcover as Machers and Rockers.
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