![]() ![]() “That’s a Beyonce I don’t think anyone’s seen yet. “People will be most surprised that the glamorous Beyonce allowed herself to be seen in the desperate straits that Etta went through, including her heroin addiction,” says Sony BMG Music Entertainment chairman Andrew Lack, who produced “Cadillac Records” with Sony BMG Films executive VP Sophia Sondervan. Raphael Saadiq, Beyonce’s sister Solange, Mary Mary, Nas, Buddy Guy and Elvis Presley also have songs on the album. The soundtrack, which will be available in both single- and double-disc editions, also includes tracks from Mos Def (portraying Chuck Berry), Jeffrey Wright (as Muddy Waters), Columbus Short (as Little Walter) and Eamonn Walker (as Howlin’ Wolf). “It gave me the confidence and the push to challenge myself a little more with my music.” “I realized that Etta James was so unapologetic, bold and strong that playing her was a big risk for me,” Beyonce recently told Billboard of the experience. ![]() Beyonce stars as James in the film, which chronicles the rise and fall of iconic label Chess Records. The film is on Netflix now, but also available from YouTube and other streamers.Beyonce’s cover of Etta James’ “At Last” will lead the soundtrack for “Cadillac Records,” due Dec. The music was good and I learned something about the lives of some of the musicians that I didn’t know before. The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago -based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. Many of them were broke.Įven though the film is several years old, I enjoyed it. Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin. It wasn’t explained, but I assume the Cadillac idea came from the fact that Leonard Chess often paid his musicians with a Cadillac instead of cash money. I have six CDs of her music on my CD rack right now, all from before the days when I could add her to my playlists on places like Pandora and Spotify. Etta James outlived them all, making records until she was in her 70s. Sex, drugs, smoking, drinking, racism and other problems felled these pioneers as the years went by. These musicians and this record label changed the world. Other women characters in the film were wives, played by Emmanuelle Chriqui and Gabrielle Union. The main musicians featured in the film were Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Yasiin Bey), Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer), and Etta James ( Beyoncé). Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters Yasiin Bey as Chuck Berry Eamonn Walker as Howlin’ Wolf Beyoncé as Etta James Click to enlarge photos And on this week’s Rate-A-Record card, I give it a 98. It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it. This is the story of a few of those pioneers. Let’s talk about the original creators of the music. Founded in 1950, Chess Records captured a vibrant new style of American music with roots in the American South that influenced and inspired rock and roll. Be it good and bad, Len Chess really impacted the industry as a whole and helped give the world rock n’ roll. This fictionalized biopic remains interesting, largely because the music is timeless.Ĭadillac Records details the music, the musicians and their lives, the efforts to get blues and rock and roll on the radio, and the theft of the music by groups like The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley.īut let’s not talk about the music thieves. It’s set in the 1950s in Chicago where a young Polish immigrant named Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) opened a recording studio and started promoting the music of Black blues musicians. Cadillac Records is a 2008 film that I just found on Netflix. ![]()
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