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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Maybellene
2. Wee Wee Hours
3. Thirty Days
4. You Can't Catch Me
5. Downbound Train
6. No Money Down
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
8. Roll Over Beethoven
9. Too Much Monkey Business
10. Havana Moon
11. School Day
12. Rock and Roll Music
13. Oh Baby Doll
14. Sweet Little Sixteen
15. Guitar Boogie
16. Reelin' & Rockin'
17. Johnny B. Goode
18. Around and Around
19. Beautiful Delilah
20. House of Blue Lights
21. Carol
22. Jo Jo Gunne
23. Memphis, Tennessee
24. Sweet Little Rock & Roller
25. Little Queenie
26. Almost Grown
DISC 2:
1. Back in the U. S. A.
2. Do You Love Me
3. Betty Jean
4. Childhood Sweetheart
5. Let It Rock
6. Too Pooped to Pop
7. I Got to Find My Baby
8. Don't You Lie to Me
9. Bye Bye Johnny
10. Jaguar & Thunderbird
11. Down the Road Apiece
12. Confessin' the Blues
13. I'm Talking About You
14. Come On
15. Nadine (Is It You?)
16. You Never Can Tell
17. Promised Land
18. No Particular Place to Go
19. Dear Dad
20. I Want to Be Your Driver
21. Tulane
22. My Ding-a-Ling - (single edit)
23. Reelin' & Rockin'
24. Bio
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Chuck Berry (vocals, guitar); Jimmie Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Bo Diddley, Matt Murphy, Owen McIntyre, Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (guitar); L.C. Davis (tenor saxophone); James Robinson, Stan Bronstein (saxophone); Johnnie Johnson, Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake, Paul Williams, Dave Kafinetti, Adam Ippolita (piano); Willie Dixon, G. Smith, Reggie Boyd (bass); Nic Potter, Gary Van Scyoc (electric bass); Jasper Thomas, Ebby Hardy, Fred Below, Odie Pain, Robbie McIntosh, Rick Frank (drums); Jerome Green (maracas); Etta James, The Marquees, The Ecuadors, Martha Berry (background vocals).
Producers: Esmond Edwards, Leonard Chess, Phil Chess.
Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.
Recorded between 1955 and 1973. Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey.
Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (Universal Music Studios-West, North Hollywood, California).
It would be an overstatement to say that Chuck Berry, like some guitar-slinging Dr. Frankenstein, single-handedly built the body of rock n' roll. Still, it is very likely that the monster's heart might have never started pounding properly had it not been for Berry's wholly revolutionary synthesis of R&B and rockabilly, his infectious, propulsive songs, his flashy, rock & roll attitude, and his no-nonsense approach to electric guitar solos.
The definitive collection of Berry's music, this two-disc, 50-track set is peppered with a few lesser-known cuts such as the dark, churning "Downbound Train" and the calypso-tinged "Havana Moon," as well as some entries from Berry's later period, such as the terrific "Tulane." But once Berry's classics start stacking up, there's not room for much else. Rock archetypes such as "Johnny B. Goode," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Rock and Roll Music," and "Roll Over Beethoven" are merely the tip of the iceberg. Chess Records luminaries the likes of Willie Dixon, Hubert Sumlin, Otis Spann and Etta James and the Marquees lend bluesy, punchy, in-the-pocket back-up support. THE ANTHOLOGY is an utterly essential collection.
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