The train started rolling in the mind of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess. British Invasion covers of classics from the Chess and Sun catalogs rallied a new audience, leading to reissues and new releases from the bluesmen marketed to the younger crowd.īut by the late 60s, the countercultural explosion had pulled rock fans further from away the genre’s musical roots, so a few savvy souls decided to do something about it. By mid-decade, the UK and US rock stars who’d learned their lessons from the old-schoolers’ 50s recordings did their heroes a good turn by bringing the spotlight back to them. And the impact was as unforeseen as it was long-lasting.īaby boomer rockers and Chicago blues originators spent a good portion of the 60s doing a dizzying do-si-do together. The psychedelic blues period for Chicago titans like Muddy and Wolfand first-generation rock’n’rollers like Bo, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard wasn’t a long one but it blasted a hole in preconceptions on either side of the stylistic fence. It was the Age of Aquarius, and the blues was busy being psychedelicized. After psychedelia came to a boil in the late 60s, the blues and rock heroes of the 50s took a brief but thrilling walk on the wild side, with fuzz guitars, wah-wah effects, and epic jams to the fore.
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