Machers and rockers
Subtitle: Chess Records and the business of rock & roll
By: Rich Cohen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Enterprise; Enterprise (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780393052800
Subjects: Chess, Leonard, 1917-1969.; Chess, Phil, 1921-; Chess Records (Firm); Sound recording executives and producers -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Today you are a man, go get me a drink; title: Jew Street; title: They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance; title: 2120 South Michigan; title: The kids dig it, but the kids are sick; title: The record man pays for our sins.