General Article name: Chuck Berry Is on Top
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Wax Time Number of tracks: 14 Tracklist LP - 1 Berry, Chuck - Almost Grown Berry, Chuck - Carol Berry, Chuck - Maybellene Berry, Chuck - Sweet Little Rock & Roller Berry, Chuck - Anthony Boy Berry, Chuck - Johnny B. Goode Berry, Chuck - The Downbound Train * Berry, Chuck - Little Queenie Berry, Chuck - Jo Jo Gunne Berry, Chuck - Roll Over Beethoven Berry, Chuck - Around And Around Berry, Chuck - Hey Pedro Berry, Chuck - Blues For Hawaiians Berry, Chuck - Run Rudolph Run *   Description Description

If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling together classics like "Maybellene," "Carol," "Sweet Little Rock & Roller," "Little Queenie," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Around and Around," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Almost Grown." With the addition of the Latin-flavored "Hey Pedro," the steel guitar workout "Blues for Hawaiians," "Anthony Boy," and "Jo Jo Gunne," this serves as almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself. While this may be merely a collection of singles and album ballast (as were most rock & roll LPs of the 1950s and early '60s), it ends up being the most perfectly realized of Chuck Berry's career. ~ Cub Koda

Cub Koda

Contributors Artist: Chuck Berry Artist: Berry Chuck Record Label: Wax Time