Chess Records, home of the Chicago blues, gets a low-down, sweat-soaked, smoke-filled and sometimes bloody valentine of a movie memorial in writer-director Darnell Martin’s “Cadillac Records.” It’s ...

“Cadillac Records” is a story about Chess Records. But it is not THE story of the Chicago label that helped birth both electric blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Every historically based film truncates, ...

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 Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo ...

Back in the day, you weren’t anyone in the blues world unless you were signed to Chess Records, the label that made stars out of a generation of rough and tumble musicians, notably Muddy Waters, ...

While it tells the story of an exciting period in American pop culture, “Cadillac Records” winds up being so trite, tidy and two-dimensional that you would swear you were watching a late-night ...

From the sharecropper fields of Mississippi to the mean streets of Chicago, "Cadillac Records" tells the story of Chess Records, the groundbreaking label that crossed racial barriers and gave rise to ...

For many, Chess Records, which Polish brothers Leonard and Phil Chess founded exactly 75 years ago, is the greatest recording ...