Chess Records

Chess Records

Blues legend Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation is located in the former site of Chess Records, the recording home of blues luminaries such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Koko Taylor and Etta James.
Chress Records was founded by Leonard and Phil Chess, who came to Chicago along with many European Jew seeking a better life in the United States. Their's is an interesting tale of immigrant success mixed with Black musicians, ioneers in a musical art form born in the south.

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