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(59 Items) Chess Records artists - a complete roster, past and present, of this recording label. Chess Records bands and groups are all listed here with photos and data, and you can link their full discography. You can use Ranker to make your own list of your favorite Chess Records musicians, or you can make your own dream record company to compete against this list of artists on Chess Records. The list you're viewing contains items like Al Jardine and Charles Stepney.

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Order   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Nationality Labels
  1. 1
    Rock music, Rock and roll
    Lima
    United States of America
    Columbia Records, Capitol Records, Mercury Records, Atco Records, Chess Records More
  2. 2
    Rock music
    Lima
    United States
    Atco Records, Chess Records, Mercury Records
  3. 3
    Blues, Boogie-woogie, Rock n' Roll
    Chicago
    The Boogie Man, Fools That Try, The Alan Gerber Album, Tied On, Live, Blue Tube, Chicken Walk More
    Canada
    Shelter Records, Chess Records
  4. 4
    Chicago blues, Jump blues
    United States
    Chess Records
  5. 5
    Chicago blues, Jump blues
    Born with the Blues
    United States of America
    Chess Records
  6. 6
    Rhythm and blues, Gospel music, Blues
    Jackson
    Candy / That's a Pretty Good Love, 96 Tears, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle, The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55, I Ain't Got Nobody / Going Home Baby More
    United States of America
    Okeh Records, Epic Records, Savoy Records, King Records, Chess Records, Brunswick Records, Scepter Records More
  7. 7
    Rhythm and blues, Chicago soul, Northern soul
    I Do Love You, Greatest Hits, Hits and Rarities, Sitting in the Park / Once Again, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Stewart, Unbelieveable More
    United States of America
    Okeh Records, Chess Records
  8. 8
    Rock music, Blues-rock, Rhythm and blues, Chicago blues, Rock and roll, Blues More
    McComb
    Bo Diddley in the Spotlight, Bo Diddley Live, Say Man: 20 Greatest Hits, I'm High Again / Another Sugar Daddy, The Essential Bo Diddley, The Blues Collection 5: Jungle Music, Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger, Big Bad Bo, The Story of Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley / I'm a Man, Have Guitar Will Travel, Cops and Robbers / Down Home Special, Gold, The Black Gladiator, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bo Diddley, His Best, The Chess Box: 1955-1959, Who Do You Love, The Super Super Blues Band, Super Blues, Go Bo Diddley, I'm a Man, Best Of, Volume 1: 1955-1958, Back to School / Ooh Baby, Bo Diddley's a Twister, The Originator, Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley's Beach Party, Two Great Guitars, Pretty Thing / Bring It to Jerome, Surfin' with Bo Diddley, Rare & Well Done, Live at the Ritz, Bo Diddley Is a Lover, Hey... Bo Diddley: In Concert, Bo Diddley Rides Again / In the Spotlight, 16 Greatest Hits, The Mighty Bo Diddley, Bo Knows Bo, 500% More Man, Signifying Blues (Charly Blues Master Works, Volume 43), I'm a Man: The Chess Masters, 1955-1958, The Definitive Collection, Another Dimension, Ain't It Good To Be Free, Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, Breakin' Through the B.S., Gold, Bo Diddley, Rock 'n' Roll Legend, Who Do You Love / I'm Bad, A Man Amongst Men, Bo's Blues, Hey! Bo Diddley / Mona, This Should Not Be, 'Hey Bo Diddley', Diddley Daddy, 20th Anniversary of Rock & Roll, Hey! Bo Diddley, Promises, Signifying Blues, Rock 'n' Roll Forever - Bo Diddley, Tales From The Funk Dimension 1970-1973, The London Bo Diddley Sessions, Bo Diddley & Company, Hey! Good Lookin', Where It All Began More
    United States of America
    Atlantic Records, RCA Records, Triple X Records, Chess Records, Checker Records More
  9. 9
    Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Pop music, Jazz, Country, Blues, Soul blues More
    Shelby County
    Portrait of the Blues, Two Steps From the Blues & Here's the Man, Ain't Nothing You Can Do, Ask Me 'Bout Nothing, Live on Beale Street, Farther Up the Road / Sometime Tomorrow, Dreamer, The Best of Bobby Bland, Together for the First Time... Live, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bobby Bland, Two Steps From the Blues, Ain't That Loving You / Jelly, Jelly, Jelly, His California Album, The Anthology, Here's the Man!, Get on Down / Reflections in Blue, Memphis Monday Morning, Reflections in Blue, Turn on Your Love Light: The Duke Recordings, Volume 2, I'll Take Care of You / That's Why, Members Only, The Voice (Duke Recordings 1959-69), Midnight Run, That Did It!: The Duke Recordings, Volume 3, Long Beach 1983, I Pity the Fool: The Duke Recordings, Volume 1, After All, Here We Go Again, Spotlighting the Man, Sad Street, Blues at Midnight, I Pity the Fool / Close to You, Years of Tears, Greatest Hits, Volume 1: The Duke Recordings, First Class Blues More
    United States of America
    Modern Records, Chess Records, Malaco Records, Duke Records
  10. 10
    United States of America
    Atlantic Records, RCA Records, Mercury Records, ABC Records, Argo Records, Chess Records More
  11. 11
    Chicago blues, Blues, Electric blues
    Lettsworth
    Buddy's Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy, A Man and the Blues, Ultimate Jazz & Blues, Skin Deep, I Ain’t Got No Money, Ten Blue Fingers, Buddy's Blues 1979-82: The Best of the JSP Sessions, The Complete Chess Studio Recordings, Buddy's Blues, Buddy Guy and Friends, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy, Skin Deep, I Was Walking Through the Woods, Stone Crazy!, First Time I Met the Blues, Blues Singer, In The Beginning, Breaking Out, Heavy Love, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 27: I Cry and Sing the Blues, Blues Today, Live! The Real Deal, I Was Walkin' Through the Woods, Sweet Tea, Slippin' In, Left My Blues in San Francisco, Alone & Acoustic, Slippin' In, The Very Best of Buddy Guy, Feels Like Rain, Buddy’s Baddest: The Best of Buddy Guy, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Living Proof, Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago - 1979, Coming At You, This Is Buddy Guy!, The Definitive Buddy Guy, Hot And Cool, The Treasure Untold, Can't Quit the Blues, The Complete Vanguard Recordings, Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, Breaking Out, D.J. Play My Blues, As Good as It Gets, A Man & the Blues, The Buddy Guy Collection, First Time I Met the Blues-Python, Southern Blues 1957-63, The Blues Collection 4: Stone Crazy, Bring 'Em In, My Time After Awhile, I Left My Blues in San Francisco, Mustang Sally (feat. Jeff Beck), The Great Blues Guitar Legends, Six String Frenzy, Hold That Plane!, Stone Crazy, Stay Around a Little Longer (feat. B.B. King), Feels Like Rain, Can't Quit The Blues:Box Set, Chess Masters More
    United States of America
    Rhino Entertainment, Vanguard Records, Atlantic Records, MCA Records, Jive Records, Cobra Records, Zomba Music Group, JSP Records, Delmark Records, Cleopatra Records, Chess Records, Flyright Records, Silvertone Records, Charly Records, MPS Records More
  12. 12

    Charles Stepney

    Rhythm and blues, Soul music
    Columbia Records, Chess Records
  13. 13
    Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, Blues
    23 Original Rock 'n' Roll Hits, The Great Twenty-Eight, Roll over Beethoven, Gold, One Dozen Berrys, Maybellene, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, More Rock 'n' Roll Rarities, My Ding-A-Ling / Johnny B. Goode, On Stage, Chuck Berry in Memphis, Chuck Berry, Collection, No Particular Place to Go / You Two, You Came a Long Way From St. Louis: The Many Sides of Chuck Berry, Crown Prince of Rock 'n Roll, Golden Hits, The Best Of, The World of Chuck Berry, After School Session, Rock 'n' Roll Music 2, Rockin' at the Hops, Run Around, Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, Mr. Rock 'n' Roll, Chuck Berry - In Concert, Maybellene / Wee Wee Hours, The Best Of, One Dozen Berrys / Juke Box Hits, All Stars 2000, Legends in Music, His Best, Volume 1, Roll Over Beethoven, Live at the Fillmore Auditorium, All the Very Best, Rock, Rock, Rock, Compilation Chuck Berry, Reelin' and Rockin': The Very Best of Chuck Berry, I'm Talking About You, New Juke Box Hits, San Francisco Dues, Chuck Berry, You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966, Let It Rock, Greatest Hits (live), Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Music, Carol / Hey Pedro (Lazy Pedro), The Definitive Collection, Greatest Hits, On the Blues Side, The Anthology, Masters of the Blues: The Best of Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry Is on Top, Rock 'n' Roll Rarities, The Chess Years, Come On / Go Go Go, Classic, From St. Louie to Frisco, The Ultimate Collection, Too Much Monkey Business / Brown Eyed Handsome Man, I'm a Rocker, 14 Greatest Hits, Rock & Roll Music, Let It Rock, Nadine (Is It You?) / O Rangutang, Merry Christmas Baby / Run Rudolph Run, Memphis Tennessee, Back Home, 20th Century Masters - The Best of Chuck Berry, The Charly Originals, Collection, The Magic Collection, The Chess Box, Rock 'n' Roll Music, Thirty Days / Together We Will Always Be, 20 Great Tracks, Portrait of Chuck Berry, The London Chuck Berry Sessions, 20th Century Music, Blues Berry, Greatest, Live!, Rock It, Two Great Guitars, Greatest Hits, The Best of Chuck Berry, Reelin' and Rockin', The Best of Chuck Berry, Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969-1974, The Best, Motorvatin', His Best, Volume 2, Johnny B. Goode / Around and Around, Back in the U.S.A. / Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis to Liverpool, Chuck Berry Singles Collection, Volume 1, Roll Over Beethoven, Chuck Berry, The Best of Chuck Berry, Blues, 14 All-Time Hits, 20 Greatest Hits, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chuck Berry, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, His 30 Greatest Hits, My Ding-A-Ling (The London Sessions), Rock 'n' Roll Music, Rockin' the Hits, Sweet Little Sixteen, The Best Of Chuck Berry, The Best of the Best of Chuck Berry, Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll: Live in Toronto, Poet of Rock 'n' Roll, Chuck Berry on Stage, Concerto in B. Goode, Bio, Chuck Berry Live in Concert, Anthology, Fresh Berry's, Live on Stage, Chuck Berry Twist, Chuck Berry in London, Rock It, Sweet Little Sixteen / Reelin' and Rockin', Volume 2, The Chess Box, The Best... Chuck Berry, The Promised Land, The Best Of, Greatest Hits, Roll Over Beethoven / Drifting Heart, Sweet Little Sixteen, Les génies du rock: Johnny B. Goode, After School Session, 20 Super Hits, The Best Of, Berry Is on Top / St. Louis to Liverpool, Almost Grown / Little Queenie, You Can't Catch Me / Havana Moon, After School Session, Chuck Berry With the Miller Band: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium, Let It Rock, Greatest Hits, Cars, Chuck Berry's Golden Hits More
    United States of America
    Mercury Records, Atco Records, Chess Records
  14. 14
    Rhythm and blues, Jazz, Blues, Cajun music, Zydeco, Swamp blues, Creole music More
    Squeezebox Boogie, The Best of Clifton Chenier: The King of Zydeco and Louisiana Blues, Live at Grant Street, Louisiana Blues and Zydeco, Live at Montreux, Worried Life Blues / Hey Ma Ma, Bon Ton Roulet! & More, Jazz & Blues Collection 44: Clifton Chenier, The Blues Collection 42: Frenchin' the Blues, Zydeco Legend, Bayou Blues, Zydeco Dynamite: The Clifton Chenier Anthology, Live! At the Long Beach and San Francisco Blues Festivals, Zydeco Sont Pas Sale, Bogalusa Boogie, Le Roi du Zydeco, Louisiana Blues And Zydeco, Best of Clifton Chenier, Zodico Blues and Boogie More
    United States of America
    Alligator Records, Arhoolie Records, Chess Records
  15. 15

    Dale Hawkins

    Rock music
    Rock 'n' Roll Tornado, Chess Rock 'n' Rhythm Series, Susie Q, Oh! Suzy-Q: The Best of Dale Hawkins More
    United States of America
    Chess Records
  16. 16
    Rockabilly, Rock and roll
    Dallas
    United States of America
    Independent record label, MGM Records, Alta Records, Chess Records, Sparton Records More
  17. 17
    Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Pop music, Disco, Gospel music
    Whynot
    Everything's Coming Up Love, So Soon We Change, I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of David Ruffin, Feelin' Good, David, Me 'N Rock 'N Roll Are Here To Stay, My Whole World Ended, Who I Am, David Ruffin, In My Stride, Ruffin & Kendrick, Gentleman Ruffin More
    United States of America
    Warner Bros. Records, RCA Records, Motown Records, Chess Records
  18. 18
    Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Jazz, Rock and roll, Gospel music, Blues More
    Los Angeles
    Time After Time, Etta James Sings for Lovers, Tell Mama, Icon, Gold, Etta Is Betta Than Evah, The Right Time, Etta James Sings Funk, Heart of a Woman, The Chess Box, 12 Songs of Christmas, Seven Year Itch, The Late Show (feat. Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson), The Right Time, At Last!, Come a Little Closer, Blue Gardenia, Tell Mama, The Second Time Around, R&B Dynamite, Love's Been Rough on Me, The Heart of a Woman, The Genuine Article: The Best of Etta James, Let's Roll, The Queen of Soul, Losers Weepers, Live From San Fransciso, Hickory Dickory Dock, The Definitive Collection, Rocks the House, Etta James Rocks the House, Rocks The House, Life, Love & the Blues, Tell Mama, Respect Yourself, Classic Masters, Burnin' Down the House, The Essential Etta James, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Etta James, How Strong Is a Woman: The Island Sessions, I'd Rather Go Blind, Love Songs, My Greatest Songs, Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions, Come a Little Closer, Her Best, Matriarch of the Blues, Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday, The Best of Etta James, Enduring Soul, Etta James Gold, The Sweetest Peaches - Part Two (1967-1975), At Last!, The Very Best of Etta James: The Chess Singles, All The Way, Call My Name, Etta James Top Ten, Rocks the House, Etta James Gold, The Complete Modern and Kent Recordings, Playlist: The Very Best Of Etta James, At Last, At Her Best, Pushover / I Can't Hold It in Any More, Jazz, My Greatest Songs, Blues to the Bone, Blue Gardenia, 12 Songs of Christmas, Only a Fool, Changes, Deep in the Night, Stickin' to My Guns, Matriarch of the Blues, Only a Fool More
    United States of America
    Elektra Records, Atlantic Records, RCA Records, Island Records, Private Music, Argo Records, Modern Records, Chess Records, Cadet Records More
  19. 19
    Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Pop music
    St. Louis
    The New Look, Free (The Paula Recordings), Rescue Me / Soul of the Man, Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass, The Very Best of Fontella Bass, Safe and Sound / You'll Never Ever Know More
    United States of America
    Chess Records
  20. 20
    Blues, Folk music, Rockabilly, Country
    United States
    Adelphi Records, Barrelhouse Records, Chess Records, Sun Records
  21. 21
    Folk music, Rockabilly, Country, Blues
    The Missing Link
    United States of America
    Sun Records, Adelphi Records, Chess Records, Barrelhouse Records
  22. 22
    Rhythm and blues, Soul music, Doo-wop
    United States of America
    RCA Records, Motown Records, Chess Records
  23. 23
    Chicago blues, Blues, Electric blues
    West Point
    Killing Floor, The Gold Collection, The Chess Box, The Real Folk Blues, The Howlin' Wolf Anthology, Little Baby / Down in the Bottom, Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Volume 1, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Deluxe Edition), His Best, The Blues Collection 7: London Sessions, Highway 49 and Other Classics, Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog, The Howlin Wolf Album, No Place to Go / Rockin' Daddy, Mama's Baby / Do the Do, I'm the Wolf, Portrait in Blues, Message to the Young, The Gold Collection, The Definitive Collection, 'Rockin' The Blues - Live In Germany, The Wolf Is at Your Door, Tail Dragger, Rides Again, Smoke Stack Lightning, Volume 1, Smokestack Lightnin', Oh, Red!! / My Last Affair, Howling Wolf Sings the Blues, The Very Best of Howlin' Wolf: The Millenium Edition, The Real Folk Blues, My Mind Is Ramblin', Just Like I Treat You / I Ain't Superstitious, Sings the Blues, Louis, Dust My Broom on the Killing Floor, London Re-Visited, Change My Way, Howlin' Wolf, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Howlin' Wolf, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Dorothy Mae, Who Will Be Next?, The Very Best of Howlin' Wolf, 28 Great Blues Ballads, Going Back Home, Howlin' at the Sun, The Sun Years, 16 Greatest Hits, The Howlin' Wolf Collection, The Back Door Wolf, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, The Revue Collection, Howlin' For My Baby / Spoonful, The Very Best of Howlin' Wolf, Live In Cambridge, Smokestack Lightning: Live in Germany 1964, In Concert, Demon Drivin' Blues Man, His Best, Volume 2, The Genuine Article, The Howlin' Wolf Album, Three Hundred Pounds of Joy / Built for Comfort, Wang Dang Doodle / Back Door Man, The Collection, The Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Moanin' for My Baby, Spoonful, Big City Blues, The Howlin' Wolf Collection, Smokestack Lightening, The Power of the Voice, Volume 4, Going Down Slow, 25 Blues Classics of Howlin' Wolf, Sitting on Top of the World / Poor Boy, Moanin' at Moonlight, Moanin' at Midnight, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Red Rooster, The Real Folk Blues / More Real Folk Blues, Bluesmaster, Rockin' Chair Album, My Baby Walked Off, Cadillac Daddy - Memphis Recordings 1952, A Proper Introduction to, Back Door Man, The Masters, The Very Best of Howlin' Wolf, The London Sessions, Charly R&B Masters: Spoonful, Come Back Home, The London Sessions, Chess Masters, More Real Folk Blues, Volume 3, The Wolf Is at Your Door, Chicago Blue, Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Volume 2, Moanin' & Howlin', Smokestack Lightning / You Can't Be Beat, Killing Floor / Louise, Live and Cookin' (At Alice's Revisited) More
    United States of America
    Chess Records
  24. 24
    Rhythm and blues, Gospel music, Blues
    Ponchatoula
    Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) / Time Is on My Side, A Woman's Viewpoint: The Essential 1970s Recordings, Time Is on My Side, Simply Grand, The Way I Feel, Irma Thomas Live!, Straight From the Soul, Wish Someone Would Care, The Story of My Life, If You Want It, Come and Get It, True Believer, I'm Gonna Cry Till My Tears Run Dry / Nobody Wants to Hear Nobody's Trouble, Best of Irma Thomas, Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection, Ruler of My Heart / Hittin' on Nothing More
    United States of America
    Minit Records, Rounder Records, Imperial Records, Chess Records
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    Chicago blues, Blues
    Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, 1951 - 1954: His JOB Recordings, Daddy Talk to Your Son / She Don't Know, Mamma Talk to Your Daughter / Man Watch Your Woman, Don't Touch My Head / I've Been Down So Long, Alabama Blues, Mama Your Daughter Is Going to Miss Me / What Have I Done, Mojo Boogie: An Essential Colection, Mama Watch Your Daughter: Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 47, J.B. Lenoir - Blues Classics, I Don't Know, One of These Mornings, J.B. Lenoir, I'm in Korea / Eisenhower Blues, Passionate Blues, Eisenhower Blues, The Blues Collection 34: Eisenhower Blues, J.B. Lenoir 1951-1954: His J o B Recordings, Vietnam Blues, Mama Talk to Your Daughter More
    United States of America, France
    Vee-Jay Records, Parrot Records, Chess Records, Checker Records, J.O.B. Records, Parrot Records More

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