CD Edition limited to 5000 non-numbered copies. Chuck Berry's legendary breakthrough 1950s Chess recordings has gotten their first thorough presentation anywhere via a 4-CD, 103-song box set on Chess/Hip-O Select Records. These are the groundbreaking recordings by the first poet laureate of rock 'n' roll that set the tone lyrically and musically for all that came after. To paraphrase John Lennon, if they didn't call it rock 'n' roll, they'd call it Chuck Berry music, and this remarkable new set shows why. ...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Compilation originally released in 1986 featuring alternate versions or different mixes of 20 songs including - "No Particular Place To Go," "Little Queenie," "Nadine," "You Never Can Tell," "Johnny B. Goode," "Reelin' and Rockin'" and "I Want To Be Your Driver."

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The 26 songs here, recorded in 1964 and 1965, constituted the tail-end of Chuck Berry's first stay at Chess Records, which had begun a decade earlier with "Maybelline." This material slots into the same period as his appearance on the {#T.A.M.I. Show} doing "Nadine"; little here is as well-known as "Nadine," but not because it isn't worth hearing. Apart from "It Wasn't Me" (featuring Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield), none of these songs have been extensively anthologized, and a...   [ read more ]

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