How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters

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The story of Jewish immigrants and black migrants in Chicago, and how the blues were recorded, packaged, and sold.

Published Aug. 2 2014 6:45AM EDT

Rich Cohen is one of those enviable writers whose intelligence and enthusiasm touches everything he writes about, from Jewish Gangers to the Chicago Bears’ 46-Defense.

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How Leonard Chess Helped Make Muddy Waters

The story of Jewish immigrants and black migrants in Chicago, and how the blues were recorded, packaged, and sold.

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Alex Belth