Artist	Song
The Rolling Stones	What a Shame
from The Rolling Stones, Now! (2005)
Led Zeppelin	How Many More Times
from Led Zeppelin (Remastered) (1969)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Pride and Joy
from Texas Flood (1994)
The Allman Brothers Band	Statesboro Blues (Live)
from At Fillmore East (Live) (1997)
Van Morrison	How Can a Poor Boy?
from Keep It Simple (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
The Yardbirds	I'm a Man
from The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 (Disc 1) (2006)
U2	Desire
from U218 Singles (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Bruce Springsteen	Pink Cadillac
from 18 Tracks (1999)
The White Stripes	Rag and Bone
from Icky Thump (2007)
The Black Keys	I Got Mine
from Attack & Release (2008)
The Beach Boys	Surfin' USA
from Sounds of Summer - The Very Best of The Beach Boys (2003)
Aerosmith	I'm Ready
from Honkin' On Bobo (2003)
The Black Crowes	Walk Believer Walk
from Warpaint (2008)
Janis Joplin	Ball and Chain
from Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits (1996)
The J. Geils Band	Hard Drivin' Man
from The J. Geils Band (2009)
Keb' Mo'	Dirty Low Down and Bad
from Keb' Mo' (1994)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd	(Let Me Up) I've Had Enough
from Ledbetter Heights (2008)
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Call Me the Breeze
from All Time Greatest Hits (2009)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band	Shake Your Money Maker
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (2008)
The Legendary Blues Band	Money
from Red Hot 'n' Blue (1994)

Comment:

Would the '60s have happened without Chess Records? Technically, of course; musically, not a chance. The Beach Boys kick-start the era's surf music craze with a little help from Chuck Berry — well, a [i]lot[/i] of help (see our Covers section for more about that) — in "Surfin' U.S.A." Not only did the Rolling Stones take their name from a Muddy Waters track, you can hear Muddy footprints all over their early records, including "What a Shame," actually laid down during their 1964 pilgrimage to 2120 S. Michigan Ave. And they were just [i]one[/i] of the British Invasion brigade (including the Yardbirds, the Animals, the Who, and lots more) that found their groove in the grooves of Chess records. Two decades later, U2 unloaded a 12-gauge shotgun blast of Bo Diddley beat cranked to rafter-rattling proportions on "Desire." And dragging the sound of Chess from the Windy City on over to the Rust Belt, the White Stripes and the Black Keys strip it down and bore it out, two by two; "Rag and Bone" and "I Got Mine" are nothing short of killing-floor blues with an alt-rock 'do. From Hendrix to Clapton, from Springsteen to Skynyrd, your favorite artists all have a piece of Chess in their songbook.

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