I shouldn't be surprised.

I'd never seen this one!

Fans of Superman will remember that many of the important people in the hero's life had LL names, like Lois Lane, Lex Luther, and Lafaye...

When I was at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale I saw Big Joe Williams' nine string guitar-- a do-it-himself sculptural and musical m...

It was an amazing act of precognition (is that a word?) for Chuck Berry to tell Beethoven to "roll over." It was the tenth song ...

"[W]e were riding along in the car and all of a sudden we heard Chuck Berry’s first record – 'Maybellene' on WIND – the pure wh...

Here's a great shot of Chuck Berry and "Boogie" Bob Baldori in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1981 or 1982.  The shot comes from Baldo...

One of my favorite singers: Otis Spann was on a couple Chuck Berry records, and a LOT of MuddyWaters records, and his own, too! G...

This amazing picture of Chuck Berry serenading a woman before leaving the April 2010 Blueberry Hill show was taken by fan Rob Couder.  Dang!...

In a comment on my posting about family and privacy, Stefano, from London, mentioned the Chuck Berry song "It's My Own Business....

Not the Beatles' song.  Rolling Stone, April 29, 2010, p. 62.  (Gonna be harder to get tickets.)

Here's the LINK .

There's a scene in "Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll when Keith Richards and Chuck Berry are rehearsing "Carol!" ...

Chuck Berry was quoted in a great article in the British newspaper The Independent.  (There was a link, but it faded with time.  Alas.) ...

This next one wasn't doing to well on my computer, but it's nice, too-- a relaxed version of "Roll Over Beethoven" in f...

I just received an 8 by 10 original of this photo by U.S. Mail.  Thank you Busseybootleger!  It's a great picture that becomes even bett...

My wife and I went out tonight, and spent the last hour or so at a neighborhood restaurant that features live music on the weekends. And at ...

When three generations of Berrys and probably several branches of the family tree showed up on stage at the Pageant Theater the other day, ...

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...