Marshall Chess, son of legendary blues label founder, details the long journey to his new supergroup The Chess Project.
The white-haired Chess dishes on Zoom like a friendly stranger at the bar: His father, Leonard, once made James cry, “to get her to do stuff”; the late guitarist Michael Bloomfield was so anxious about collaborating with Waters on 1969’s Fathers and Sons that a friend had to take him to a hospital for a tranquilizer; Marshall attended college at the University of Denver in the ’60s, taking time off from studying to exercise horses outside of town and shop Chess records to radio stations as a...
Over time, Chess and collaborator Keith LeBlanc – the experimental hip-hop drummer who’d been in Sugar Hill’s house band – adjusted their idea. Instead of using the Muddy and Etta samples, they turned the tracks into quasi-covers, modern interpretations of blues songs from the ’50s and ’60s. Chess approached BMG to administer the deal, and they hammered out the details, from the marketing budget to the launch party. “Then,” Chess says, “I collapsed.
Sometimes, Marshall Chess says, he had to summon the spirits of Leonard and Phil Chess to get to the heart of a track. On “Help Me,” he says, “We had trouble getting Bernard to do the vocal — he wouldn’t do it the way Keith wanted it.” So naturally, Chess, who was president of Rolling Stones Records from 1970 to 1978, told Fowler a story: In the ’50s, when Marshall was 16, Leonard Chess enlisted him to supervise a session with a prominent Chess artist while he went to the bank.
– but the album was a top label seller for years, and wound up inspiring a generation of rappers, including Public Enemy’s Chuck D.
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