Saw that the estimable Mssrs. Lohr and Robinson from the Chuck Berry Band are going to be backing Boo Boo Davis in at BB's Jazz, Blues a...

Look who's on my favorite opinion website--  The Dish.   (Andrew Sullivan is a "conservative" who doesn't like the radic...

Muddy Waters, Joe Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.  And here it is.

Enjoy this while it lasts-- the whole show!

Gracias Enrique!

Are there other blues songs that say "thanks?"  J. B. Hutto spent some time in Seattle when I first moved here, around 1978.  A sm...

I like it! "When I saw  Chuck Berry  in "Jazz on a Summer's Day" as a teenager, what struck me was how he was playing ...

Here's a little interview with King Kahn  and his upcoming visit to St. Louis.  (Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue, November 25.)  He wants...

Sharing the wealth at the 1994 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame concert.  (As usual, we thank Doug!)

Del Shannon and Chuck Berry, Saville Theatre, February 1967 Here's some microfilm  about Chuck, John, Ringo and Beatles manager Bria...

You've seen the picture of Chuck in the 1970s, probably playing blues, looking like he's about to kiss the frets of his guitar.   HE...

Yep.  I'd pay $1.50 to see this one! Thank you Mr. Bootlegger.

Here's an interview with George Thorogood talking about his LP 2120 South Michigan Avenue .  The money line for our purposes: Do y...

I first “discovered” the blues when I was 14 or 15, when I found record after record in the bargain racks.  Unfortunately, after an init...

Thank Ida May for this one.  Too bad the director's goal seemed to be to hide Chuck Berry behind peoples head's and drum heads (and ...

Thank Doug for this one!  (And if you like it [you will] check out what he did 16 years later, right above this post.)  (You might have to c...

I figure if I get a tip from Mr. Lohr, I follow up.   This is the first thing I found from Little Milton at Bobbin Records in St. Louis.  Am...

Daryl Davis on guitar, the St. Louis band backing, and Chuck Berry on ... on... Vocals!  (Hey-- if you like this, click on the masthead and ...

Actually, blues from a bright fall morning in Seattle, when, for reasons unknown, I decided to go back to my basement and record something. ...

The caption says that David Grohl is doing his best Chuck Berry duckwalk.  You be the judge.  (His "scoot" is about a minute or so...

I've had this sudden vision of Enrique: And Dominic (check out this rarity!): And Carmelo: And Jean: And Thomas-- (Can...

Here's a link to a great slideshow of photographs by Peter Wochniak from the show with  Johnny Rivers.

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...