Spinning Blues into Gold The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

"Nadine Cohodas's absorbing history is more than a story of the proto-rock era....It's a portrait of Chicago in the wake of World War II, of 1950s race relations and of the complex mechanics of the music business during a time of rapid change....Ms. Cohodas demythologizes as well as anyone could the larger-than-life stories that persist about [the Chess Brothers] putting deejays on their payroll to get records played or cheating their black musicians out of royalties. She also sprinkles the book with marvelous anecdotes that show how close the brothers let themselves get to their black musicians, always balancing pragmatism with a naturally gentle, if not generous, spirit. Cohodas, Nadine is the author of 'Spinning Blues into Gold The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records' with ISBN 9780312261337 and ISBN 0312261330.