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Running Time
108
min
MPAA rating
R
(for pervasive language and some sexuality)
Release Date
Dec 5, 2008
Cadillac Records
"Cadillac Records" is about the rise and fall of Chess Records, which launched the careers of Muddy Waters, Etta James and Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess scoured the South, checking out the various blues scenes and selling records from the back of his Cadillac.
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If, as Muddy Waters once sang, the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll, then Chess Records was the delivery room. The little record label birthed the overamped all-American yawp known as Chicago blues, exemplified by Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and other impolite black men with harmonicas and guitars. Then, just as that sound was making inroads into white teen America, Chess turned around and launched Chuck Berry like a duck-walking nuclear bomb.
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