Moretn Reff's book tells me that CB was on Midnight Special in December 1973 and played "Tulane" and "Got it and Gone!...

Part of the joy of this blog is reconstructing my own wine-washed memories.  So far, so good.  Little by little I've put together the ba...

This is the Chuck Berry I remember seeing so often in those days.  It's a great performance, and interesting to compare to the BBC show ...

Chuck Berry fans are not couch potatoes.  They take action.  Ida May used a sign to get herself on stage.  Doug got on stage to do his own v...

Karen sent this-- a picture of my sister in law Carol-- I mean, Liz-- at Blueberry Hill.

I don’t know when I first started hearing, or reading, about “Red Chuck” (actual name, Jean Million).  He’d show up on the chuckberry.com me...

I first saw Chuck Berry in Sacramento on February 13, 1971.  I’d heard about the concert that same day on the radio. I convinced two of my s...

Because of this blog, and a Sacramento Archivist, I know that it was 40 years ago this evening that I first saw Chuck Berry.  Only close, lo...

Part of the room where I first heard Chuck Berry's Golden Decade As I’ve worked on this blog, I’ve written a lot about my own experi...

Sunday evening will make it 40 years since I first walked into the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento to see Chuck Berry perform live.  That ...

Ah well, you probably can't, and I definitely can't.  But with the internet, all things are at least THEORETICALLY possible.  And th...

This is making sense to me now--- it's a companion to the great one with T-Bone.  (I've got it filed away as "video of the mon...

Or maybe just 52. A couple of newspaper stories about getting arrested on charges of rocking while black back in the fifties.  I remember ...

A few weeks ago I posted a clip of Sugar Pie DeSanto in England in 1964. Here she is again, 43 years later!  Chuck, you're not the only ...

It’s pretty remarkable to me to think that it was 40 years ago that I went to my first Chuck Berry show.  I wish I could go back and see it ...

Thank you Wolfgang for spotting the DATE on that last article!

I read somewhere recently where CBII said that Chuck Berry is a big fan of the Louvin Brothers.  Charlie Louvin died January 26 at the age o...

I was looking up who this "Sugar Pie" was who was on the bill with Louis Jordan and Chuck Berry at the Sacramento Memorial Auditor...

Bob Lohr posted the interview on facebook.  I stole it. JW : Chuck Berry has a reputation for being difficult. Was that your impression o...