Product: Cadillac Records [Blu-ray] (2008)
Rating: 5.0
Band playing the covers of the Chess artists in the movie.
The music played in this movie was what made this film believable. The band played so close to the original versions of the songs covered in this movie. Each musician was hand picked by the great Steve Jordon to play as close as possible to sound like the musicians on the original recordings. Marshall Chess was their when we recorded this and said " "Never in my whole life sence the early days at Chess have I heard or seen anyone play or sound like you!" - Marshall Chess (2008)Steve Jordon, Kim Wilson, Larry "The Mole" Taylor,( Hubert Sumlim, who was on all of the Chess recordings with Howlin Wolf) Billy Flynn, Eddie Taylor Jr, Barrelhouse Chuck were the musicians who played on this soundtrack.Remember this is Hollywood! Yes their wasn't Phil Chess, Bo Diddley, and Sonny Boy Williamson ( to name a few). Their were many other people left out of the movie. Almost every artist at Chess was a star! They couldn't have everyone in the movie.I am so glad that this movie brought back the attection to the public all around the world the names of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry, and the great Etta James. Now go buy these Chess artists records. Listen how great they played! No one ever could touch them or sound just like them, or sing just like them. Or ever will.How lucky we were to have listened to Muddy, Walter, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny Johnson, Otis Spann, Chuck Berry, Howlin Wolf. We learned how to play our music by these great original Chess recordings!This is the pride of Chicago! CHESS RECORDS!!Living in Chicago getting to hear a lot of these artists play live really made the difference for us musicians here in the city.