Chuck Berry

Live From Blueberry Hill

(Dualtone)

It's standard knowledge that Chuck was among rock'n'roll's few actual patresfamilias. He contributed that genre's very lead idiom and stance. Less familiar may be the staggering truth that his sole Billboard #1 hit was 1971's "My Ding-A-Ling." That jocular cover of Dave Bartholemew's 1952 novelty number doesn't appear here, but numerous superior and much-loved Berry originals do. 

Recorded in 2005 and 2006, these in-concert iterations feature competent players at his elbow. If he sounds a bit out of breath at times, well, chalk that up to advanced seasons - but never indifference. Mr. Rock'n'Roll was still having fun.

Recommended: "Rock'n'Roll Music," "Let It Rock," "Carol / Little Queenie," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Around And Around," "Johnny B. Goode"

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