A good blog I just ran across...   http://squeezemylemon.blogspot.com/

The same sister who accompanied me to my first Chuck Berry concert some 40 years ago (I was 14) just gave me a poem by poet Cornelius Eady...

A week or so ago I told about blues in Madrid.  Yesterday, when we climbed up to Parque Guell in Barcelona we found someone named Robert pla...

Our last day in Barcelona and we went to the Picasso Museum.  The last time I was there I was 19, and my Chuck Berry problem was still in it...

I love finding evidence that Chuck Berry remained an influence after his "golden decade" had more or less passed.  If memory serve...

Hey-- you could hear the pop across the Atlantic. Of course, regular readers know that he was inspired by another 'brown-eyed han...

The thing that interests me is that, last night, sitting in a tiny place in Madrid, Spain, talking to my wife, that riff starts.  It's o...

So I'm in Madrid with my wife, and we have vague plans to attend a concert of Flamenco and Baroque music tonight, but we're too lat...

Gotta find the video!

Daryl Davis on Chuck's guitar... This clip, which features Ingrid on vocals and Karen and friends on stage, shows why going to Blueb...

Doug took it from the front row...

I first learned Chuck Berry through The Beatles and Johnny Rivers.  The Beatles didn't show up at the Blueberry Hill birthday show, bu...

... but for his birthday we can all be Cardinals fans.  (What?  You think I'll ever root for the Rangers?)

Tonight, Chuck plays again at Blueberry Hill, and a few days later, at a Casino across the river.  How often has this happened?   Th...

Here's a little post in the  Seattle Times .  You can find my original post about seeing Daryl and friends at the spectacular festival...

The place he sang his "Ding-a-Ling" is now the library! Here's the story from Fred Rothwell, author of Long Distance Informa...

Thanks to Doug for this one.  (The date is really 10-3-11; otherwise I slept longer than I thought.) Set list is below.  Tickets were $2...

The song is called "Ingo."  I always figured it was written for his daughter Ingrid, who had a birthday recently.

A set list for a Chuck Berry show!  (Now I know Bigfoot and UFO's are real!) This is courtesy Bob Lohr on facebook.  I experience he...

Aretha was in St. Louis and had some nice words for our man.  Read about it  HERE.

If you read this blog you know that my favorite latter day Chuck Berry album was "Back Home," which featured the harmonica of Robe...

If you read this blog a lot you've probably bumped into Mr. Elliott, who described his early days backing Chuck Berry and whose friend...

Members present: Peter K. and Peter O. Question raised: Was he observing, or simply posing? Working Hypothesis: Actual Astronomical Observ...

One of my favorite writers on the music and significance of Chuck Berry is Michael Lydon, who once published a great piece on Chuck in Rampa...

... the stuff  you find!

...when you google Chuck Berry

This is interesting-- after he hands off his guitar he tells the crowd that he's got an ear problem that makes it difficult to hear some...