An edition of Machers and rockers: Chess Records and the business of rock & roll
(2004)
Machers and rockers
Chess Records and the business of rock & roll
1st ed.
by Rich Cohen
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"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 Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & Roll had arrived, and an industry was born." "Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business - aggressively acquiring artists, strong-arming distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Machers and rockers: Chess Records and the business of rock & roll
2004, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Today you are a man, go get me a drink
Jew Street
They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance
2120 South Michigan
The kids dig it, but the kids are sick
The record man pays for our sins.
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