Description A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry.
Rock & Roll had arrived, and an industry was.
Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too.
Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it.
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.
Description A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry