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            I finally read my copy of Chuck Berry: An American Life. I wasn’t in a rush. There were other books above it in the pile, and wh...

In a few weeks you will be able to find my book, "My So-Called Disorder: Autism, Exploding Trucks, and the Big Daddy of Rock and Roll,...

One thing I loved about the new album “Chuck” even before I opened it was the cover: a beautiful drawing of an iconic photo and the ...

This picture, which I've not done justice by reproducing with my phone, was taken by my friend Doug, at Blueberry Hill, and does a pe...

Years ago I wrote about meeting Chuck Berry and giving him a framed picture of himself as a child.  Peter K. had given me the photograph and...

On Valentine's Day in 1971, when I was just 14, I walked into a nearly empty Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento and saw a lone figure on ...

Johnny Buschardt got in touch with me recently to ask if I had any old photographs of the exterior of Chuck Berry's old Club Band...

Bob Dylan talks about Chuck Berry’s greatness in the current issue of AARP: "Chuck Berry could have been anything in the musi...

For a year or two now I've been remotely following a Colorado musician named Jack Hadley after first hearing about him from Bob L...

1  Well, not really!  It was Chuck Berry and Company at Blueberry Hill, the 11th day of December, 2013.  But as you'll see, with my ol...