Artist	Song
Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy
from The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Muddy Waters - His Best, 1947 to 1955 (1997)
Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightning
from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (1997)
Chuck Berry	Maybellene
from Chuck Berry: The Anthology (2000)
Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley (1955 Single Version) [Mono]
from The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Bo Diddley - His Best (1997)
Etta James	At Last
from The Chess Box: Etta James (2000)
Little Walter	My Babe
from The Essential Little Walter (1993)
Koko Taylor	Wang Dang Doodle
from What It Takes: The Chess Years (1991)
Ramsey Lewis Trio	The "In" Crowd
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ramsey Lewis (2002)
The Dells	Stay In My Corner
from Oh What a Night!: The Great Ballads (1998)
The Monotones	The Book of Love
from Doo Wop Classics, Vol. 1 (2003)
Billy Stewart	Sitting in the Park
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Stewart (2000)
Fontella Bass	Rescue Me
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Bring It On Home
from Sonny Boy Williamson II: His Best (1997)
Buddy Guy	Ten Years Ago
from The Complete Chess Studio Recordings (2010)
J.B. Lenoir	Mama Talk to Your Daughter
from Chess Blues (1993)

Comment:

Under the roof of Chicago powerhouse Chess Records, Southern country-blues cats like Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy went straight from Delta pickers to Windy City wonders, harnessing electricity to ignite their lightning licks. Not only was Chess the powder keg beneath the Chicago blues explosion; it also gave birth to such soul stars as brokenhearted belter Etta James, and — let’s not forget — even helped invent rock ’n’ roll by leaving the studio key under the mat for Chuck Berry.

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