I have to thank chuckberry.com/forum and an Italian fan for this wonderful clip and interview.  (And they say he doesn't give 'em!) ...

Here’s Rolling Stone editor Jan Wenner: "Look, there was a very special moment in the 1950s with Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis and...

And what a show! Bo Diddley! Marvin Gaye! The Rolling Stones! Smokey Robinson! James Brown collapsing on stage and wrapped by attendant...

“We always get requests for a Chuck Berry song when we come to St. Louis,” said Bruce Springsteen, at his recent concert there.  A fan held ...

Chuck Berry has an interesting family-- Daughter Ingrid, who sings with him; son Charles, who plays guitar for him; Daughter Isalee, who gav...

I've long lamented the lack of a film or video of Elmore James.  American television and Hollywood evidently didn't have enough vis...

If the devil didn't teach Robert Johnson, it was this man (and it's a straight shot from Johnson to Chuck).  He taught Muddy, too.  ...

Youtube is a miracle-- a time machine, and a chance to see people and things I only dreamed about when I was a kid.  Blues is a journey t...

Three days before his 83rd birthday Chuck Berry did his 149th monthly show at Blueberry Hill. These BBH shows are a legacy that will be rem...

I hope you live forever-- and that I live to be 100!  (Your music's gonna for sure.)

A record you can send me for MY birthday!  I learned about it here:  http://cousin-mike.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html Too Much Monk...

Chess Records, from 1950 to 1960, was a miracle.  (It really does look like a scene from court, here; and the audience looks like a bunch of...

Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson (II), Willie Dixon playing it cool.  Help with the others appreciated.  (Otis Spann on Piano?  Jimmy Roge...

My third Chuck Berry album, after “The Golden Decade” and “Back Home,” was 1971's "San Francisco Dues."   Author John Collis ...

It was Muddy Waters who told Chuck Berry to go to Chess records.  In the late 1960s Berry was recorded playing Muddy's (and Willie Dixon...

I noticed that a guy named Charlie Ray Richards is going to be doing a Chuck Berry Tribute Show way up north of Toronto, Canada on Mr. Berr...

The newspapers are beginning to notice that Chuck Berry is coming back to the British Isles. Some nice! http://www.yorkshireeveningpos...

I think Bob Dylan has always been a bluesman at heart—and that he’s become a great one in recent years. Maybe that’s too confining. He reach...

I go see him tonight-- alas, at a more questionable venue. http://blogcritics.org/music/article/concert-review-bob-dylan-and-his1/

(You probably can't, and I definitely can't, but I learn stuff trying!) I’m not the most focused individual. I hop from thing to...

Another spirited 1980 performance-- this one a rare (for me) occasion to see Chuck Berry play one of his later songs in public.  The song...

The guy was going crazy that year!  Sorry I missed it.  What I like here is that he's playing Maybellene the old fashioned way, with tha...

I was out of the country from 1980 to 1983.  I missed out on all of these.  By now Chuck Berry's legend is taking hold.  He's had ...