CLEARANCE - Large Blue Ltd. Edition Chess Records Knight T-Shirt - Classic Heavy Cotton 

** THIS IS A CLEARANCE T-SHIRT! **
This means it is extremely low stock, and when they are gone they are gone! All sales are final -- NO RETURNS. The shirt itself will be free from any defects, holes or issues. We place shirts on clearance when the shirt is still in wonderful sellable condition, but we just have an extra or two. Maybe we overprinted, or occasionally print a test tee, maybe we're discontinuing the design, etc. 

These shirts are not compatible with coupons. 

This is a very limited edition Bluescentric Brand Chess Records t-shirt, available in classic heavy 100% preshrunk cotton sizes S-5XL. Heather colors are 50/50. Sizes run very true, and have minimal, if any, shrinking. This is a standard go-to t shirt.

This Chess Records t-shirt design features the famed Chess Knight logo & font.

Founded in 1950 by polish immigrant brothers Leonard & Phil Chess, armed with the fresh talents of a young Muddy Waters, Chess Records would come to be called "the greatest independent American record label". 

Mud's "I Can't Be Satisfied" was followed by "Rollin' Stone" -- an album that sold out the busy Chicago record stores in hours. Soon, Chess had a stable of hot talent with a bluesy new sound. Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and Willie Dixon's multi-talented abilities as a songwriter & performer made the label an unstoppable force for the rhythmic, driving music known as "the blues". But Chess would soon define Rock n Roll as well.

Etta James released her monster hit debut album, "At Last!" at Chess, and Muddy brought in a hot young guitarist by the name of Chuck Berry -- whose hits like "Johnny B. Goode" and "Riding Along in My Automobile" laid the groundwork for Rock n Roll. 

Ultimately, having played a key role in defining what America sounded like, the label fizzled to a slow close sometime after the company was sold out in 1969.