Genre: Rock'n'Roll
Places I remember: Fives (Leigh on sea)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wee Wee Hours (Chuck gets the blues)
Gear costume: No Money Down (car songs - this is one of Chuck's best, therefore one of the best of all time); School Days
Active compensatory factors: This was Chuck's debut album (and Chess Records' second) released in the year of my birth, which makes it 63 years old!
Places I remember: Fives (Leigh on sea)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Wee Wee Hours (Chuck gets the blues)
Gear costume: No Money Down (car songs - this is one of Chuck's best, therefore one of the best of all time); School Days
Active compensatory factors: This was Chuck's debut album (and Chess Records' second) released in the year of my birth, which makes it 63 years old!
My CD edition is a 50th anniversary edition with three killer bonus tracks attached.
At the time Chess collected all the singles Chuck Berry ('our rock-a-billy troubadour') had released, adding two more tracks from the sessions that produced the singles and - there you have it - the first Chuck Berry album dressed in a suitably period cover shot of a hunched and pigeon toed Berry.
Given the liner notes seek to present the versatility of the star on show, there is a variety of approach on display but the whole package holds together remarkably well.
Where do they all belong? Still sounds like it was recorded yesterday! Timeless brilliance.
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