Chuck Berry didn’t do a ton of straight blues songs, but when he did–as here with his version of Guitar Slim’s “The Things I Used to Do”–the results could be pretty great. The studio version of this song appeared on his 1964 LPSt. Louis to Liverpool(my personal pick for best...
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” Lewis said of Berry, just before delivering some “Rock and Roll Music” to the still-vaping-and-digging-it crowd. “He was the first to write songs for kids, and more than anyone else
Chuck Prophet, one-time guitarist with cult country rockers Green On Red, knows and loves his rock’n’roll. Whether he is covering his namesake Chuck Berry’s Ramona Says Yes with contrasting embellishment from his wife Stephanie Finch on sighing backing vocals and a lean, mean lead guitar ...
Chuck Prophet, one-time guitarist with cult country rockers Green On Red, knows and loves his rock’n’roll. Whether he is covering his namesake Chuck Berry’s Ramona Says Yes with contrasting embellishment from his wife Stephanie Finch on sighing backing vocals and a lean, mean lead guitar ...
In October of that year Page took the New Yardbirds (himself plus John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and John Bonham) to Olympic studios in London. Over 36 hours they hammered outLed Zeppelin, the biggest shockwave in rock history, the culmination of Chuck Berry’s rock n’ roll thunder, reca...
Production onClear Lake, a biopic aboutBuddy Holly, is moving forward with the announcement that Ruairi O'Connor will play the rock 'n' roll pioneer.Nellywill co-star asChuck Berry. Varietynotes thatColin Hankshas been cast as Norman Petty, Holly's manager and producer; Diane Guerrero, who...
What a career he had and so many he influenced for decades. Here is one of my favorite Chuck Berry songs. Written by Berry right after he was released from finishing a prison term in 1963, here he is with "Nadine (Is it You?)"...
CI:The second part of that concert was a big band performance featuring Bill. I was the contractor for the band. I think I did a reasonably good job: Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Bill Berry on trumpets, Bob Brookmeyer, Quentin Jackson and Bill Watrous on trombones, Bob Northern on French ...
Well the most successful project is sitting on my desk,The Ravens in the Library anthology. Three hundred and seventy pages of ballads, poems, songs and stories amply illustrated by far too many stellar artists too note here. The great cover which you can see below is James A. Owen ...