Various Artists - Cadillac Records

Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Leonard Chess co-founded Chess Records, the pre-eminent blues label of the '50s and '60s, with his brother Phil. Originally, the Chess brothers, Polish immigrants whose family settled in Chicago, formed Aristocrat Records in 1947. The Chess label followed two years later, and with it a mind-boggling flood of blues, R&B and rock and roll talent that included Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, Etta James and Little Walter. Chess Records became the greatest repository of black music at mid-century. The film Cadillac Records stars Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyonce Knowles and Mos Def and it follows the rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched these legendary careers and made history.