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Track Listing
DISC 1: 1955 TO 1958:
1. Maybelline
2. Wee Wee Hours
3. Thirty Days
4. You Can't Catch Me
5. No Money Down
6. Downbound Train
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
8. Drifting Heart
9. Roll Over Beethoven
10. Too Much Monkey Business
11. Havana Moon
12. SCool Day
13. Rock and Roll Music
14. Oh Baby Doll
15. I've Changed
16. Reelin' and Rockin'
17. Rockin' at the Philharmonic
18. Sweet Little Sixteen
19. Johnny B. Goode
20. Time Was
21. Around and Around
22. Beautiful Delilah
23. House of Blue Lights
24. Carol
DISC 2: 1958 TO 1964:
1. Memphis
2. Anthony Boy
3. Jo Jo Gunne
4. Sweet Little Rock N' Roller
5. Merry Christmas Baby
6. Run Rudolph Run
7. Little Queenie
8. Almost Grown
9. Back in the U. S. A.
10. Betty Jean
11. Childhood Sweetheart
12. Let It Rock
13. Too Pooped to Pop
14. Bye Bye Johnny
15. Jaguar and Thunderbird
16. Down the Road a Piece
17. Confessin' the Blues
18. Thirteen Question Method
19. Crying Steel
20. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
21. I'm Talking About You
22. Come On
23. Nadine (Is It You)
24. Crazy Arms
25. You Never Can Tell
26. Things I Used to Do, The
27. Promised Land
DISC 3: 1964 TO 1973:
1. No Particular Place to Go
2. Liverpool Drive
3. You Two
4. Chuck's Beat
5. Little Marie
6. Dear Dad
7. Sad Day Long Night
8. It's My Own Business
9. It Wasn't Me
10. Ramona Say Yes
11. Viva Viva Rock N' Roll
12. Tulane
13. Have Mercy Judge
14. My Dream
15. Reelin' and Rockin' (Live)
16. My Ding-a-Ling (Live Single Edit)
17. Johnny B. Goode (Live)
18. Deuce, A
19. Woodpecker
20. Bio
Album Notes
THE CHESS BOX is a comprehensive box set containing 71 digitally remastered tracks in chronological order of recording. The set also includes a 36 page booklet containing an interview and liner notes.
Personnel includes: Chuck Berry (vocals, guitar, piano); Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Matt Murphy, Jeff Blador, Owen McEntyre, Billy Peek, Wayne "Tex" Gabriel (guitar); Peter Hogan (harmonica); L.C. Davis (tenor saxophone); Stan Bronstein (saxophone); Johnnie Johnson, Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake, Paul Williams, Dave Kafinetti, Adam Ippolito (piano); Bob Baldo (electric piano); Willie Dixon, G. Smith, Chuck Bernard, Jack Groendal, Nick Potter, Greg Edick, Gary Van Scyoc (bass); Jasper Thomas, Eddie Hardy, Fred Below, Odie Payne, Bill Metros, Robbie McIntosh, Ron Reed, Rick Franks (drums); Jerome Green (maracas); Martha Berry, The Ecuadors (background vocals).
Recorded between 1954 & 1973.
Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (MCA Studios, Glendale, California).
A seminal figure in the evolution of rock 'n' roll, Chuck Berry's influence as songwriter and guitarist is incalculable. His cogent songs captured adolescent life, yet the artist was 30 years old when he commenced recording. In 1955, during a chance visit to Chicago, Berry met bluesman Muddy Waters, who advised the young singer to approach the Chess label. Berry's demo of 'Ida May', was sufficient to win a recording contract and the composition, retitled 'Maybellene', duly became his debut single. Berry enjoyed further hits with 'Thirty Days' and 'No Money Down', but it was his third recording session that proved even more productive, producing a stream of classics, 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'Too Much Monkey Business' and 'Brown-Eyed Handsome Man'. The artist's subsequent releases read like a lexicon of pop history - 'School Days', 'Rock And Roll Music' (all 1957), 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'Reelin' And Rockin', 'Johnny B. Goode' (1958), 'Back In The USA', 'Let It Rock' (1960) and 'Bye Bye Johnny' (1960) are but a handful of the peerless songs written and recorded during this prolific period.
Berry was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1986. His stature as an essential figure in the evolution of popular music cannot be underestimated.
Industry Reviews
Sound - 4 Stars
5 Stars - A Classic
'School Days', 'Rock And Roll Music' (all 1957), 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'Reelin' And Rockin', 'Johnny B. Goode' (1958), 'Back In The USA', 'Let It Rock' (1960) and 'Bye Bye Johnny' (1960) are but a handful of the peerless songs written and recorded during this prolific period. Berry was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1986. His stature as an essential figure in the evolution of popular music cannot be underestimated.
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