William James Dixon was an American blues musician,vocalist,songwriter,arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar,and sang with a distinctive voice,but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters,Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues.
McKinley Morganfield,known professionally as Muddy Waters,was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene,and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago,specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records,founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music,gospel music,early rock and roll,and jazz and comedy recordings,released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo/Cadet. The Chess catalogue is owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records.
"Mannish Boy" is a blues standard written by Muddy Waters,Mel London,and Bo Diddley. First recorded in 1955 by Waters,it serves as an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man",which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man". "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song.
Bo Diddley is the debut studio album by American rock and roll musician Bo Diddley. It collects several of his most influential and enduring songs,which were released as singles between 1955 and 1958. Chess Records issued the album in 1958. In 2012,it was ranked number 216 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list alongside his second album,Go Bo Diddley (1959). The ranking of the album pair dropped to number 455 in the 2020 update of the list.
The Anthology:1947–1972 is a double compilation album by Chicago blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. It contains many of his best-known songs,including his R&B single chart hits "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man","Just Make Love to Me ",and "I'm Ready". Chess and MCA Records released the set on August 28,2001.
"I'm a Man" is a rhythm and blues song written and recorded by Bo Diddley in 1955. Inspired by an earlier blues song,it was one of his first hits. "I'm a Man" has been recorded by a variety of artists,including the Yardbirds,who adapted it in an upbeat rock style.
"Hoochie Coochie Man" is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1954. The song makes reference to hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a stop-time musical arrangement. It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as Chess Records' chief songwriter.
"Who Do You Love?" is a song written by American rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley. Recorded in 1956,it is one of his most popular and enduring works. The song represents one of Bo Diddley's strongest lyrical efforts and uses a combination of hoodoo-type imagery and boasting. It is an upbeat rocker,but the original did not use the signature Bo Diddley beat rhythm.
The Chess Box is a compact disc box set compilation by Chuck Berry. It is one in a series of box sets issued by MCA/Chess in the late 1980s. The Chuck Berry set is the most prominent of these,having won a Grammy Award for Best Historical Album in 1989. Berry's Chess Box was reissued on vinyl in 1990.
The Best of Muddy Waters is a greatest hits album by Muddy Waters released by Chess Records in April 1958. The twelve songs were originally issued as singles between 1948 and 1954 and most appeared in Billboard magazine's top 10 Rhythm &Blues Records charts.
His Best is a 1997 greatest hits compilation album by American rock and roll icon Bo Diddley released by Chess and MCA Records on April 8,1997. The album was re-released by Geffen Records on April 17,2007 as The Definitive Collection with a different album cover. The Definitive Collection reached #2 on Billboard magazine's Blues Albums chart on June 21,2008,which was the week that the album debuted on the charts.
His Best is a 1997 greatest hits compilation album by Sonny Boy Williamson II released by Chess and MCA Records in May as a part of The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection which released many albums titled His Best for artist such as Bo Diddley,Little Walter,and others.
His Best is a greatest hits album by Chicago blues harmonica player Little Walter,released on June 17,1997 by MCA and Chess Records as a part of The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection. The album is seen as the CD successor to the 1958 The Best of Little Walter and features ten of the songs from that album.
The Real Folk Blues is a 1966 compilation album of Muddy Waters recordings,released on the Chess record label in January 1966. The album was the first release of The Real Folk Blues series and has since been re-released in multiple formats. The album features some of Waters' first recordings.
Bo Diddley is the eighth studio album by American rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley,not to be confused with the 1958 compilation album of the same name. The 1962 album was released as Checker LP-2984 in August 1962 and featured the Willie Dixon-penned classic "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover",which was released as a 7" 45 rpm single in July 1962.
Fathers and Sons is the seventh studio album by the American blues musician Muddy Waters,released as a double LP by Chess Records in August 1969.
2120 South Michigan Ave. is the fifteenth studio album by George Thorogood and the Destroyers. It was released on June 14,2011 on the Capitol Records label. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. The title refers to the address of the offices and recording studios of Chess Records in Chicago. The album contains ten covers of songs recorded on Chess Records by artists such as Chuck Berry,Bo Diddley,Willie Dixon,and Muddy Waters;plus a cover of The Rolling Stones' instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue" and two original songs about Chess Records artists. Capitol Records approached Thorogood with the idea for the album and selected most of the songs. Buddy Guy and Charlie Musselwhite perform on the album,although their work was added after primary recording was complete.
"Hate to See You Go" is a blues song written and recorded by Chicago blues artist Little Walter. In 1955,Checker Records released it as one of three singles by Walter that year. The song,a one chord modal blues,is a reworking of "You Don't Love Me",written by Bo Diddley and recorded one month prior.
The Super Super Blues Band is an album by blues musicians Howlin' Wolf,Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley released on the Checker label in 1968.
