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| | NothinButDaBlues Reading Room May 2001: Chess Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Through the recordings of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, and many other talents great and small, the Chicago-based label and its subsidiaries (Checker and Argo, later renamed Cadet) did an enormous amount to amplify the blues, record some of its greatest talents, and bring the form into the modern era. |
 | | Aristocrat was not a blues label at its outset, recording pop and jazz. |
 | | Aristocrat had skirted around the blues with jazz-blues sorts of outings by the likes of Andrew Tibbs, and employed guitarist Muddy Waters as a sideman on a 1947 single by pianist Sunnyland Slim. |
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