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 ...

For a film “based on a true story”—that of Leonard and Phil Chess’s eponymous record label, featuring the likes of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Etta James (Beyoncé ...

“Cadillac Records” is a story about Chess Records. But it is not THE story of the Chicago label that helped birth both electric blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Every historically based film truncates, ...

There was nothing synthetic about either, and that’s the heart of “Cadillac Records,” a film about the founding of Chicago’s Chess Records company. What became the home of a slew of 1950s and ’60s ...