Since we've been talking about family, here's a letter from son to father...

Here you've got four Berrys in the field of view-- Chuck, Charles, Charles, and Ingrid.  (In our family we spent a week or two trying to...

Here's a link to a blog called Brown Eyed Handsome Man-- and the interesting post that evidently started it.  http://browneyedhandsomema...

But we have to remember-- he never did catch Nadine!  (I don't think.) This is live from the Pageant-- an all ages (and evidently al...

Here's a sweet version of "Nadine" from Chuck Berry's show last night at the Pageant in St. Louis (one of her biggest fans...

(Wish I could Understand!)

Recently a good version of the T.A.M.I. show came out on DVD, and public television has been using a chopped up version to request donations...

I turned on the news a year or so ago and saw a bunch of rural folk in Montana dancing in cowboy hats to "Johnny B. Goode."  No su...

In the spring and summer of 1978 I drove an ailing Fiat 128 across the country from Seattle to the East Coast and back. On the way home-- in...

In his book “Long Distance Information: The Recorded Legacy of Chuck Berry,” author Fred Rothwel tells a charming and typical story of bumpi...

The official Chuck Berry website ( www.chuckberry.com/forum ) has a very good list of all of Chuck Berry's recent appearances. Morton Re...

It's interesting that Chuck Berry scholar Morten Reff says that "I grew up with swing jazz from my father’s collection. People like...

Watch him tune up during the intro to Johnny B. Goode from September '09 at BBH.  This is a great, energetic performance that I found on...

How can I stop when people like Doug send me stuff like this??? But wait-- there's more! Dang-- good stuff!

I don't see many movies at the theater, but I knew when I saw this preview that I'd like Crazy Heart.  We saw it last night.  I...

Here's another really nice write up about the event at Sumner High. Back in the classroom! This one quotes Berry's son as saying he...

Chuck Berry sang (at) his old alma mater the other day, and got an honorary diploma.  Check it out HERE .  (There's a video link).   The...

So I just got back from Hawaii, and I've decided to do a few pieces on Chuck Berry and Hawaii, so I googled some, and found this cool en...

In continuing my examination of all things Hawaiian, I finally have to disagree with Fred Rothwell.  In his liner notes to "You Never C...

I'm on vacation-- and learning how not to blog every day.  But yesterday we stopped at the Hanalei Community Center and saw/heard Doug M...

One of the problems with Chuck Berry albums is that they tend to be a hodgepodge. In the early days, when the backup musicians were all Ches...

I'm going there, so I probably needed this...

I've been paying attention first to all the stuff we've never heard-- but the real beauty of this collection is that it brings back ...

Wow!  Double Wow!  Just moments ago the Drummer from Butch Whacks and the Glass Packs-- the "fifties" band that backed Chuck Berry...

After 40 years and a couple weeks I finally got my copy of “Have Mercy” and I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet. I haven’t had time. B...

So it finally arrived, and I went straight for pay dirt—a blues “Annie Lou” performed (I think!) solo by Chuck Berry. Annie Lou ...

Remember Bob Margolin and "Delay Time?" "The note would come a little delayed. In the course of a fraction of a second the ...

"Between about 1940 and 1960, one high school in St. Louis produced a Wimbledon champion, two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, an Emmy-win...

Dear Hip O Select Customer: We regret to inform you that there is a delay in receiving Chuck Berry's "Have Mercy- His Complete C...