The Blues A Musical Journey: Godfathers and Sons

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'Blacks plus Jews equals the blues,' runs an old adage on Chicago's Maxwell Street, the original home of Polish expat Leonard and Phil Chess's seminal Chess Records. Muddy Waters cut not only his legendary '40s and '50s tracks for the imprint, but also his late-'60s crossover experiments 'Fathers and Sons' - with various young rock acolytes - and 'Electric Mud', which numbers among its few admirers Public Enemy's Chuck D. Marc Levin's film follows Leonard's heir Marshall as he welcomes D and the rapper Common into the old fold to take a shot at HipHop-blues and hear stories from the glory days. Marshall's such a voluble witness that his story pretty much overtakes the film - an introduction to some of the backing band characters would have been handy - but it's compelling material any which way.
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  • I may have been a bit too over the top w/ the claim that the:"Five Blindboys" nearly brought the Co. down. I do know that there was a lot of nervous concern about it for some time. And that's all I knew, no more.

    diane chess Mon Oct 24 2011
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  • you guys are very confusing to me. But maybe it's me who is lacking

    dc Sun Oct 23 2011
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  • just why my first message was deemed inappropriate I just can not imagine. It's all the truth maybe Time Out doesn't like the truth? All I said was just how narcissistic Marshall was when I knew him and still see today where he remains the same old fool who never grew up. Same old desperate need for acknowledgment he never got from his father nor never would unless he was capable of achieving wholly something of his own which he isn't capable of. His embarrassing display of so emblazoning how the blues is in his "DNA" is just so amazing that anyone could act like that. Give him a podium and he'll give a good show! albeit, bad acting, he's just so beside himself that he's blind to what a fool he's making of himself. Just as he did in the book:"STP" when he was up on the stage. there is nothing inappropriate about this comment! Or are only pros allowed?

    diane chess Sun Oct 23 2011
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  • Someone was taken by Marshall Chess and his desperate need for attention even when he knows most of what he claims is way overblown. He never was any heir of anything, His father told him the reason for the sale of Chess was because he had no one to leave it to. In all the yrs. I was married to him, never did I see him put on a record much less a blues record? That's a joke, but he is able to carry all of his nonsense off, except for the "ones" who far well know better. And I am one of them. He knows what I'm claiming is all true. That is the truth for the records. He never mentions how the "Five Blind Boys" practically brought Chess down.

    diane chess Thu Feb 3 2011
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