Fresh Interview of Marshall Chess

Etta James: I’d Rather Go Blind

“Harvey Kubernik: What was the wildest shit you ever saw in a radio station in the 1960s?

Marshall Chess: Hmmm. I’m not gonna tell you this DJ’s name, but at a station in Boston owned by a white guy. (laughs). I walked into his office, the radio was on through the speakers, he was sitting behind his desk, and all of a sudden he was squirming around, and all of a sudden this heavy black girl comes up from underneath his desk sucking his dick while he was talking to me! (laughs). That was probably the craziest thing I ever saw.” Harvey Kubernik, Sonic Boomers

Cadillac Records tells the story of the beginning of Rock & Roll

Cadillac Records trailer

Mark Anthony Neal writing: “With Little Walter’s #1 single “Last Night” (“Last night, I lost the best friend the best friend I ever had”) playing in the background, Waters walks upstairs into a bathroom, off-screen, and utters a series of bone-chilling howls that sound like death itself.”

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records trailer

“The music is also a window into history, and “Cadillac Records” is an uncommonly astute treatment of race in America at the end of the Jim Crow era.” Read more from New York Times.

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Cadillac Records

“Cadillac Records,  the film that charts the rise and fall of seminal R&B label, Chess Records, starring Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def and Jeffery Wright, and Adrien Brody (as Etta James, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and R&B magnate Leonard Chess, respectively) has itself a trailer.”, The Playlist

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