I didn't mind supporting a good cause by purchasing the webcast of "The Domino Effect" (a failed benefit concert designed to h...

This is one of my favorite moments in "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll!" and a good enough reason all by itself to buy that movi...

It's nice to see a thoughtful review of a recent Chuck Berry show: http://www.post-rockist.com/2009/05/22/chuck-berry-live-at-blueberry-...

Some of us were born too late for the digital age. If you go to youtube you’ll probably find something like a hundred films showing Chuck B...

So what makes a grown man obsess over Chuck Berry? (It’s mostly men, by the way. Check out his fanatic followers at http://www.chuckberry.co...

Leon Russell just passed through Seattle playing his famous gospel-blues-rock-just-plain-amazing piano at a the Tractor Tavern in Ballard. I...

A Chuck Berry fan from Iowa put me in the vicinity of this one. I think this may be the show where Chuck was the only guest on Johnny Carson...

I have read interviews where Chuck Berry talked about some songs being speeded up by Chess so that he would sound younger. (He was an ancien...

Chuck Berry is always the first to acknowledge his influences-- Carl Hogan, T-Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, and on and on. I wrote about s...

As that guy with big pants said, "You can't top this!"

This is wonderful-- with Bruce Willis and a cast of thousands at Planet Hollywood...

A recent piece on Chuck Berry and Blueberry Hill on PBS... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/04/chuck-berry.html

Chuck Berry's best selling album ever was a mixed bag called The Chuck Berry London Sessions-- a half studio, half live set that include...

The May 14, 2009 issue of Rolling Stone has an article about Bob Dylan that quotes Dylan on Chuck Berry: A friendship has developed bet...

I've always quoted him as my chief philosopher. To paraphrase a bit that I remember: "The key is to not infringe on others. If you...

Speaking of Bob... (Too Much Monkey Business below) Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking abo...

Bob Dylan , interviewed about his new record... "A lot of this album feels like a Chess record from the fifties. Did you have that s...

"Illinois Jaquet, too-- big influence. His guitar player? No, Illinois himself! His choice of notes, his melodies, you'll hear it ...

"Guitar playing, a person named Charlie Chirstian, guitarist for Benny Goodman, T-Bone Walker, and Carl Hogan-- I think those three wou...

The things you find on YouTube! I don't know where this is, and can only guess that it's from 1964 or thereabouts-- but it's a ...