Product: Cadillac Records [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 5.0
When The Delta Blues Went Electric & Became The Chicago Style!!
Even though they played around with historical facts and figures,I still found this movie to be very entertaining and all thecast did a good job in their respective parts.This is about how Leonard Chess (a 2nd generation polish-american jew)and his brother Phil founded the very influential CHESS labelin the late 40's and early 50's and gave the black musicthat had come up from the south with the great migration a voiceand a new electric aggressive amplified sound that became knownas the Chicago Blues!Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, John Lee Hooker,Chuck Berry, Etta James, Koko Taylor and early gospel artistslike a very young Aretha Franklin and her father, the veryinfluential Reverend C.L. Franklin all found a home at Chessand their art was heard all over America and beyond to Englandwhere people like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger,Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon, John Lennon,Paul Macartney, George Harrison and many many others wereinspired to create a british rock revolution that changedpop & rock music forever!Chess Records was pre-SUN, pre-STAX and pre-Motown!Its only contemporary would be Atlantic Records.The real story is far more tumultuous and interesting thanthis movie could ever be, but then it would've been a 3 hour flick.I would definitely add it to my collection for the history andfor rememberance of the label that was a fixture in mostmusic loving households from the late 40's to the late 60'swhen Leonard Chess sold it and died soon after from a massiveheart attack only a few blocks from the site wherehis musical empire once stood!