If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling together classics like "Maybellene," "Carol," "Sweet Little Rock & Roller," "Little Queenie," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Around and Around," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Almost Grown." With the addition of the Latin-flavored "Hey Pedro," the steel guitar workout "Blues for Hawaiians," "Anthony Boy," and "Jo Jo Gunne," this serves as almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself. While this may be merely a collection of singles and album ballast (as were most rock & roll LPs of the 1950s and early '60s), it ends up being the most perfectly realized of Chuck Berry's career.
Genre - Rock
Styles - Rock & Roll
Time - 30:36
Format - mp3@320 Kbps
Size - 65 mb
Tracks
01. Almost Grown
02. Carol
03. Maybellene
04. Sweet Little Rock & Roller
05. Anthony Boy
06. Johnny B. Goode
07. Little Queenie
08. Jo Jo Gunne
09. Roll over Beethoven
10. Around and Around
11. Hey Pedro
12. Blues for Hawaiians
Credits
Chuck Berry (guitar, vocals)
Bo Diddley, George Smith (guitar)
Lafayette Leake, Johnnie Johnson (piano)
Willie Dixon (bass)
Fred Below, Eddie Hardy, Jasper Thomas (drums)
Jerome Green (maracas)
Label
Chess, 1959
1 comentarios:
Legend has it Jagger met Richards in London when he saw he had a Chuck Berry album under his arm. I'd be willing to bet my paycheck it was this one. This was Chuck's second album, spawning a couple of top 40 hits; Maybelline and Johnny B. Goode. Whatever commercial success it enjoyed at the time is insignificant when compared to the tremendous influence this recording was to later have with a whole new generation of white boys, including myself. We wore the grooves out, then tried to imitate the licks. Every dude from John Lennon to Jerry Garcia cut his teeth on this hunk of wax; it's impact has been monumental. Oh yeah, you can dance to it, too!