A good interview with "Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll!" director Taylor Hackford  HERE.   Hackford also made the great documentary a...

John Wroblewski is a freelance writer who lives near Chicago.  I learned about him when Chuck Berry scholar and author Fred Rothwell  sent...

New from Doug... (Haven't even watched yet!)

From Doug...

CB and Jerry Lee, BFF

Here 's  a good interview with Joe Edwards celebrating the upcoming 40th Anniversary of Blueberry Hill in St. Louis.

" Sabato 22 febbraio 1997: è una bellissima giornata. Dopo vent'anni passati a consumare dischi di Chuck Berry cercando di capire...

When I was a teenager I was too busy listening to Chuck Berry to know much about what contemporary musicians were doing. Turns out, they wer...

A (stolen) shot from the keyboard's perspective?

Thank you Manuel!  This is the most elegant of Chuck Berry concerts.

What's a fan to do with birthday month concerts in St. Louis at Blueberry Hill and an all star jam in Cleveland the day after his 86th...

Thanks to Doug and to whoever made this video.  Great sound, great performances.

There's Enrique in Mexico and Dominic in Great Britain.  Someday the three of them should meet.

View from the piano bench at Blueberry Hill.

Got a little letter-- actually, a quite BIG one today, with a framed picture inside! The drawing is by Enrique's uncle, Edgar Herna...

A new installment HERE.

Two artists dominate my record collection. I’ve always thought they were more similar than different. Both rooted in the blues. ...

A little legalese to show just how far Mr. Berry's influence has spread.  Here, he and Ms. Mitchell are quoted gleefully by a rockin...

When Chuck Berry's Facebook page featured a picture of Chuck and Johnnie Johnson playing together one thing I noticed, besides the frien...

Here's a repost of a piece about Angus Young.  I post it again because a few days ago Angus Young won Guitar Player magazine's pla...

 Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post  HERE's  a story from The Washington Post about Daryl Davis's show tonight at the Cart...

"People say ' Why don't you give it up?'  I can't retire till I croak.  I don't think they quite understand what...

Anyway, I always liked it when they were.

Chapter Three of my "book" , wherein our young hero enters a nearly empty hall and sees his future hero playing the blues, for s...

A great performance, an overmatched backup band.  Too bad, since it was filmed for posterity by Mr. Pennebaker.  But cool, anyway.

Read it HERE.

Chuck Berry inducting Willie Dixon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Dixon's wife and daughter give the acceptance speeches.