The Best of Chess Records

Performer: Various Artists
Producer: Leonard Chess; Phil Chess; Willie Dixon; Andy McKaie (Compilation)
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Audio Remasterer: Erick Labson. Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. If you loved the songs you heard in the film CADILLAC RECORDS, based on the seminal Chicago blues label Chess, just wait until you hear the original versions, performed by the artists who put Chess on the map. The bedrock of Chicago blues is here with Muddy Waters's "I Can't Be Satisfied" and Little Walter's "Juke," but early rock & roll is represented too, by Chuck Berry's "Nadine" and "Promised Land." Come to think of it, this is a top-shelf Chess sampler even if you've never seen the aforementioned film.

Rolling Stone (p.66) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the still-shocking power of Waters' and James' singing, and the poetry of Berry's road songs..."

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