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.
“Cadillac Records” Is New Movie About Chess Records
CADILLAC RECORDS chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
“The story of how the blues became popular and gave birth to rock and roll begins at a dingy bar on the rough South Side of Chicago in 1947, where an ambitious young Polish émigré, bar owner Leonard Chess hires a talented but undisciplined blues combo that includes quiet and thoughtful guitar prodigy Muddy Waters and impulsive and colorful harmonica player Little Walter.”
