Three legendary albums from Chicago label Chess Information‘ catalog are receiving special reissues as part of the label’s Seventy fifth-anniversary collection, celebrating the imprint’s revolutionary influence on American music.
The newest releases embody Etta James’ 1960 debut studio album At Final, that includes her signature title monitor alongside renditions “Stormy Weather,” “A Sunday Kind of Love,” and “I Just Want to Make Love to You.” Launched on Chess’s Argo imprint, the document launched the world to one of many biggest American soul singers in historical past, and rose to No. 12 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 charts upon launch.
Sonny Boy Williamson II‘s The Real Folk Blues, released in 1966 shortly after his death, will also join the collection. It offers an essential overview of the harmonica master’s profession, which noticed him pen a number of trendy blues requirements together with the oft-covered “Help Me.” The gathering options classics together with “Bring It On Home,” “One Way Out,” and “That’s All I Want,” with authentic liner notes by Chess in-house songwriter Willie Dixon.
Rounding out the trio of latest reissues is rock pioneer Chuck Berry‘s Berry Is On Prime. The 1959 album captures Berry at his peak, compiling rock classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Carol,” and “Almost Grown”—songs that helped set up the framework of the style itself.
Based in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, Chess Information performed an important function in remodeling blues into a well-liked sound that reached listeners worldwide. Successfully, it laid the groundwork for contemporary rock-and-roll. The anniversary collection beforehand launched Muddy Waters’ The Better of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf’s Moanin’ within the Moonlight in October, together with compilation releases together with The Chess Information Christmas Album and Let’s Play Chess: A Chess Information Anthology. The latter was curated by Grammy-winning producer Steve Jordan.
Store the total Chess Information’s assortment, together with vinyl, merch, and extra.
