Login
Forgot?

Forget your password?
Remembered Password?
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
Digital Notes from an Analog Mind Digital Notes from an Analog Mind Digital Notes from an Analog Mind Digital Notes from an Analog Mind
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Archives

Tag Archives for: "Chess Records"
 Battle of the Blues: Muddy vs. Wolf
5
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted August 21, 2016

Battle of the Blues: Muddy vs. Wolf

What's the best way to honor blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf? Stage a virtual cutting contest.

READ MORE
0
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted April 6, 2013

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac just kicked off their 2013 tour in Columbus. Also, I just spent a few days in London. Two good excuses to re-post this one (I’ll come up with something new soon… I [...]

READ MORE
0
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted April 11, 2012

Sonny Boy II: The Chess Years

America’s greatest musical export? That’s easy – Chess blues and rock ‘n roll. New Orleans R&B might be a close second, and you can’t deny the lasting, global impact of jazz greats like Miles [...]

READ MORE
0
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted August 19, 2011

Little Walter, By the Book

Here’s a re-post of an item we first published back in October 2009 (RCR’s third post… we’re now up to 115). It remains the most visited page on our site, by far – and it [...]

READ MORE
 Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
8
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted August 5, 2011

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac

There’s a curious scene in the movie “Cadillac Records” when the Rolling Stones show up at 2120 South Michigan Avenue to record at the legendary Chess Studio. Of course Mick and the boys were [...]

READ MORE
4
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted November 25, 2010

Chess Blues Rarities

A few months ago, my blogging buddy April asked me what I thought about the movie “Cadillac Records,” a glossy look back at the birth of modern electric blues at Chicago’s Chess label in the ‘50s [...]

READ MORE
3
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted July 2, 2010

Butter’s Best

I’ve played blues harp for years… not on the same level as, say, Charlie Musselwhite, but I can get the attention of a bar full of drunks. One band I played in never seemed to make it [...]

READ MORE
4
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted October 24, 2009

Me and The Bo

Bluesman Little Walter was the troubled genius of Chess Records.  But when it came to just plain crazy, it was hard to top Walter’s label-mate, Bo Diddley, who recorded some of the most [...]

READ MORE
6
By Tim Quine
In General
Posted October 21, 2009

Little Walter, By the Book

Greetings from Carefree, AZ… where they like to point out “it’s a ‘dry’ heat.” I’m using this brief respite from the Rubber City as an opportunity to read yet [...]

READ MORE
Rubber City Review
Copyright All Rights Reserved © 2018

Start typing and press Enter to search