Track Artist Title
1. Etta James At Last
2. Jimmy Rogers Walking By Myself
3. Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell
4. Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working
5. Buddy Guy The First Time I Met The Blues
6. Lowell Fulson Reconsider Baby
7. The Moonglows The Ten Commandments
8. The Flamingos I'll Be Home
9. Howlin' Wolf Change My Way
10. Little Walter Mellow Down Easy
11. Bo Diddley Who Do You Love?
12. Sonny Boy Williamson Dissatisfied
13. Gene Ammons You're Not The Kind
14. John Lee Hooker One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
15. Willie Dixon Wang Dang Doodle
Brothers Lejzor and Fiszel Czyz (family name changed to Chess) were two immigrants from Poland who came to Chicago in 1928. They were involved in the liquor business and by the 1940's, they owned several bars on the south side of Chicago. Their largest establishment was a nightclub called the Macomba. The Macomba had live entertainment, many of those being blues performers that had migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi delta in the '30s and '40s. They realized that these performers were not being properly recorded, so they decided to start recording them themselves.
During the early years of the label, Leonard and Phil Chess did everything. They were the quintessential '50s record men: they owned the label, they produced the music they loved themselves and managed the financial end of the business.
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