It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

Andrew Tibbs's debut was his only single to provoke racist backlash, but he had a string of regionally successful records through Aristocrat.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chess Records, which brought blues to white audiences in the 1950s and 60s, is one of a handful of labels identified with one musical genre - as Stax is with soul, Sun with ...

The blues is a family business for Marshall Chess. His father, Leonard Chess, co-founded the legendary Chess Records label of Chicago in 1950. And, boy, did they release music - Chuck Berry, Muddy ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the son of the co-founder of the legendary blues label Chess Records. Marshall Chess has released a new album, "The Chess Project." The blues is a family business for ...