Various Artists – Let’s Play Chess (A Chess Records Anthology)

Release date: 21/11/2025
Various Artists - Let's Play Chess (A Chess Records Anthology)
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£38.99

Various Artists

Let's Play Chess (A Chess Records Anthology)

The story of Chess Records is the story of American popular music in the second half of the twentieth century. Best-known for capturing the sound of acoustic blues, originating from the Mississippi Delta and filtered through Chicago’s South Side, going electric and for releasing some of the earliest rock and roll singles, Chess also has a deep catalogue of jazz, R&B and soul recordings. The legacy of Chess Records endures more than 75 years later. Curated by Grammy-winning producer, Chess Records scholar, and drummer Steve Jordan, Let’s Play Chess (A Chess Records Anthology) presents 25 of the label’s best, some of the most important and thrilling recordings to be found on any label.

FORMATS

2LP (Limited Edition)

GENRE

Blues
Release date: 21/11/2025
SKU: 8803389 Category: Tag:

The story of Chess Records is the story of American popular music in the second half of the twentieth century. Best-known for capturing the sound of acoustic blues, originating from the Mississippi Delta and filtered through Chicago’s South Side, going electric and for releasing some of the earliest rock and roll singles, Chess also has a deep catalogue of jazz, R&B and soul recordings. The legacy of Chess Records endures more than 75 years later. Curated by Grammy-winning producer, Chess Records scholar, and drummer Steve Jordan, Let’s Play Chess (A Chess Records Anthology) presents 25 of the label’s best, some of the most important and thrilling recordings to be found on any label.

Format – Limited Edition 2LP

2 for £25

TRACKLISTING (IF AVAILABLE)

SIDE A
1. Muddy Waters – (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
2. Little Walter – Juke
3. Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’
4. Chuck Berry – Maybellene
5. Lowell Fulson – Reconsider Baby
6. Etta James – At Last
7. The Moonglows – Sincerely

SIDE B
1. Ramsey Lewis Trio – The “In” Crowd
2. Fontella Bass – Rescue Me
3. Tommy Tucker – High Heel Sneakers
4. Buddy Guy – First Time I Met the Blues
5. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats – Rocket 88
6. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode

SIDE C
1. John Lee Hooker – Ground Hog Blues
2. Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
3. Billy Stewart – I Do Love You
4. The Dells – Stay in My Corner
5. Etta James – All the Way Down

SIDE D
1. Little Walter – Crazy Mixed Up World
2. Muddy Waters – Rollin’ Stone
3. Otis Rush – So Many Roads, So Many Trains
4. Sonny Boy Williamson – Don’t Start Me To Talkin’
5. Jimmy Rogers – That’s All Right
6. Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful
7. Gene Ammons – My Foolish Heart

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