Various - Let's Play Chess: A Chess Records Anthology (Vinyl)

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the legendary Chess Records with this compilation of their biggest and most influential hits. Let’s Play Chess: A Chess Records Anthology offers 25 of the label’s best and most thrilling recordings from Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy to Bo Diddley and Etta James. This anthology showcases the now legendary songs that still influence popular culture today.

The story of Chess Records is the story of American popular music in the second half of the twentieth century. Founded in 1950 by Polish immigrant brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, Chess Records is best-known for capturing the sound of acoustic blues before going electric and releasing some of the earliest rock and roll singles. Chess also has a deep catalog of jazz, R&B and soul recordings.

This 2LP vinyl edition produced by Hip-O Records in 2025.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Muddy Waters – (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
2. Little Walter – Juke
3. Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’
4. Chuck Berry – Maybellene
5. Lowell Fulson – Reconsider Baby
6. Etta James – At Last
7. The Moonglows – Sincerely
8. Ramsey Lewis Trio – The “In” Crowd
9. Fontella Bass – Rescue Me
10. Tommy Tucker – High Heel Sneakers
11. Buddy Guy – First Time I Met the Blues
12. Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats – Rocket 88
13. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
14. John Lee Hooker – Ground Hog Blues
15. Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
16. Billy Stewart – I Do Love You
17. The Dells – Stay in My Corner
18. Etta James – All the Way Down
19. Little Walter – Crazy Mixed Up World
20. Muddy Waters – Rollin’ Stone
21. Otis Rush – So Many Roads, So Many Trains
22. Sonny Boy Williamson – Don’t Start Me To Talkin’
23. Jimmy Rogers – That’s All Right
24. Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful
25. Gene Ammons – My Foolish Heart