WBEZ Presents: Chess Records
Update: 2017-03-27
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Chicago-based Chess Records helped make stars of Muddy Waters, Etta James and a force of nature named Chuck Berry, who died March 18, 2017, at his home outside St. Louis. He was 90.
In 2010, WBEZ’s Sound Opinions visited the home of Chess Records, which released most of Berry’s best-known songs. In this special rebroadcast by WBEZ Presents, Sound Opinions hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot dive into the history and the legacy of Chess, a Chicago record label that changed rock n’ roll.
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