Chuck Berry Prior to a Show for and by Inmates at Lompoc  I was surprised to read there was some controversy in the St. Louis area about...

I was out jogging this morning with my i-pod and heard, in quick succession, a very nice version of a Chuck Berry song by his friend Billy P...

Suddenly, from nowhere, fuzzy video from the October 20, 2010 performance at Blueberry Hill.  And I was there! Four nights prior Chuck and...

I guess it's the English class I never had...

A nice letter...  Read it  HERE.

When I was lucky enough to meet Chuck Berry for a moment or two he mentioned a job he had as a child in a location directly below The Pagean...

This is such a great, powerful shot that I couldn't help stealing it from Ian's Facebook site.  I don't know who took it, but wh...

Photo by Alan White (See "Particular Places to Go," Right.) So who is he really? On the one hand, he wrote a 300 page book. I...

I don't know what caused me to google news about Bo Diddley.  Never did it before.  And sad about what I found-- legal scuffling over hi...

Chuck Berry recorded Maybellene on May 21, 1955.  I was - 374 days.

A song I wrote when I was 18 or 19 and recorded a week or two ago.  It's one of the things blogspot took away.  They said they'd put...

I always figured the song "Promised Land" made more than passing reference to the civil rights struggle.  Here's a great  arti...

I threatened to shut down the blog a week or so ago-- then Blogspot shut itself down and stole my most recent posts.  Gone my song.  Gone my...

I didn't know this Dwayne Eddy song until tonight, when I heard "The Quarrymen" do it in a corny John Lennon biopic.  The begi...

Chuck Berry and T-Bone Walker inherited a lot of their showmanship from early blues artists like Charlie Patton, famous for spinning his gui...

The mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay, has evidently vetoed a plan to honor Chuck Berry and other St. Louis luminaries with street names.   R...

I've only skimmed it, but you might enjoy this interesting looking blog  about LP records.  It starts, interestingly, with Chuck's ...

Dietmar tried to post this as a comment, but it didn't work-- so  HERE  is how the big spenders can order their own copy of the Newport ...

But use the phony drums in your computer and at least the beat works better!  The bass, guitars, "piano" and singing can't be ...

( Here's an oldie, but a goodie that's worth repeating.  Daryl contributed enough for two other segments that you can find by search...

According to this  ARTICLE  in the University City Patch, they're hoping to install the Chuck Berry statute on Delmar around June 10.  (...

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Bob Lohr will be playing with guitarist/singer Matt Hill tonight at Beale on Broadway in St. Louis.  Check out samples of the music on Hill...

Thanks Doug for another one...

Here's Chuck's grandson and his band-- Charles III is the one playing guitar.

Here are some more memories of the long, glorious show I saw in 1974 in  MONTEREY .  They come from the backup band, Butch Whacks and the Gl...

Tonight I ordered up “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” on Netflix and watched most of it for the first time.  I’ve skipped through it before.  There’...

Here's a pretty interesting  POST  on the whole silly Johnnie Johnson as author controversy.

Here's a second try at one that I tried to do a few months ago.  This one is better.  (Hey, all I can say is that lots of people play g...