First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo ...

In Cadillac Records, writer/director Darnell Martin’s ambitious attempt to capture Chess Records’ iconic era in American Music, the flaws present themselves almost as soon as the opening credits roll.

Back in the day, you weren’t anyone in the blues world unless you were signed to Chess Records, the label that made stars out of a generation of rough and tumble musicians, notably Muddy Waters, ...

From the sharecropper fields of Mississippi to the mean streets of Chicago, "Cadillac Records" tells the story of Chess Records, the groundbreaking label that crossed racial barriers and gave rise to ...

Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def, Eamonn Walker, Jeffrey Wright and Columbus Short B+ If I had realized that Darnell Martin was the writer/director, I'd have gone to see Cadillac ...

Darnell Martin’s Cadillac Records tells the story of Chicago’s Chess Records and the seminal blues artists it launched, among them Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, and Etta ...