One Dozen Berrys by Chuck Berry

One Dozen Berrys, Chuck Berry's second album, hit the racks on Chess Records in March 1958, and much of it is the man's singles gathered onto one long-player. Only five of the songs were new, "Rockin' at the Philharmonic", "Guitar Boogie", "In-Go", "How You've Changed" and "It Don't Take but a Few Minutes", along with an alternate take of "Low Feeling". Everything else had already done its work on 45.

What's here is the blueprint, laid down at Sheldon Recording Studio at 2120 South Michigan Ave. in Chicago, the room that would become Chess Studios: stinging, chiming guitar, a rhythm that rolls like a Chevy on an open road, and Berry's sly storyteller's delivery. "Rock And Roll Music" says it all in its title. It came out in the United Kingdom too, and in 2012 Hoodoo paired it with Berry Is on Top on one CD.

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