AVID Rock N Roll continues with its Four Classic Rock n Roll album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Chuck Berry, complete with original artwork and liner notes.
“After School Session”; “One Dozen Berries”; “Chuck Berry Is On Top” and “Rockin’ At The Hops”
Something of a rarity in the catalogue of Avid Music! We are of course, immensely proud of our fine catalogue of musical heroes from primarily the world of classic jazz music. Here, however, we are branching out a little into a musical world that was rather unsettling for jazzers at the time, the dreaded Rock n Roll! Emerging from under the influence of the blues, gospel, country and R’n’B, musicians such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and of course Elvis Presley were taking the music world by storm in the 1950’s. In many ways Chuck Berry must stand out amongst his contemporaries as he not only wrote his own music and played it his way but his signature riffs became the template for what later became pop and rock music! Arguably without Chuck Berry there would have been no Beatles, Beach Boys or Rolling Stones, and music history would have had to have been re-written! So here is how the main man started his musical recording career. Four startling albums full of classic Berry riffs and sharp as a razor lyrics for you to enjoy. Some tracks you will know of course, but there are sure to be some undiscovered gems for you to hear for perhaps the first time. Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll!
CD1
1-12: ‘After School Session’
1. School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)
2. Deep Feeling
3. Too Much Monkey Business
4. Wee Wee Hours
5. Roly Poly
6. No Money Down
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
8. Berry Pickin’
9. Together We Will Always Be
10. Havana Moon
11. Down Bound Train
12. Drifting Heart
13-24: ‘One Dozen Berrys’
13. Sweet Little Sixteen
14. Blue Feeling
15. La Jaunda (Espanola)
16. Rocking At The Philharmonic
17. Oh Baby Doll
18. Guitar Boogie
19. Reelin’ And Rockin’
20. Ingo
21. Rock And Roll Music
22. How You’ve Changed
23. Low Feeling
24. It Don’t Take But A Few Minutes
CD2
1-12: ‘Chuck Berry Is On Top’
1. Almost Grown
2. Carol
3. Maybellene (Mabellene)
4. Sweet Little Rock And Roller
5. Anthony Boy
6. Johnny B. Goode
7. Little Queenie
8. Jo Jo Gunne
9. Roll Over Beethoven
10. Around And Around
11. Hey Pedro
12. Blues For Hawaiians
13-24: ‘Rockin’ At The Hops’
13. Bye Bye Johnny
14. Worried Life Blues
15. Down The Road A Piece
16. Confessin’ The Blues
17. Too Pooped To Pop
18. Mad Lad
19. I Got To Find My Baby
20. Betty Jean
21. Childhood Sweetheart
22. Broken Arrow
23. Driftin’ Blues
24. Let It Rock
