It must be weird being Chuck Berry, whose career has taken him from small black and mixed race audiences at clubs in St. Louis, to the 1950s...

...from Mike Aragogna at Huffingtonpost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/huffpost-reviews-chuck-be_b_175187.html

Hip-oSelect.com and Geffen records recently put out a four cd release called “Chuck Berry: You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings...

And he got 'em! Can't resist posting this photo of Chuck Berry's Car, courtesy of Sky.

Well, it won't happen. And you sure won't learn it from a book. But I just finished reading "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" by ...

In the late 1970s, when I first came to Seattle, the bluesman J. B. Hutto somehow got stuck here for a couple of months. I saw him a couple...

A performance from 2007, with his St. Louis band-- Jim Marsala, bass; Robert Lohr, keyboards; Keith Robinson (I think!), drums; and Charles ...

I added a nice clip of Chuck Berry playing "Bio" yo yhe piece about the album "Bio" below. Here's another clip from...

A day after banning cameras and not allowing fans to see a webcast of his performance at The Domino Effect benefit for New Orleans Chuck Ber...

June 3, 1973 , (yikes--- that's 36 years ago!) is listed in “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography” as the recording date for the album “Bio.”...

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...