Chuck Berry

180 GRAM VINYL

INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential reissue includes Chuck Berry’s magnificent debut album, After School Session, originally released in May 1957 by Chess Records. It’s one of the all-time cornerstones of rock & roll, and a truly representative sampler of Berry in his prime.

In addition to the original masterpiece, this collector’s edition also contains 4 bonus tracks from the same period, including great numbers such as “Rock & Roll Music,” “Thirty Days (To Come Back Home),” the unforgettable “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and the outstanding single “Maybellene” which climbed to #1 on the US R&B charts in 1955.

PERSONNEL:

CHUCK BERRY, vocals and guitar, plus:

WILLIE DIXON (bass & backing vocals)
JOHNNIE JOHNSON or OTIS SPANN (piano)
FRED BELOW, JASPER THOMAS or EBBY HARDY (drums)
JEROME GREEN (maracas & backing vocals).

R Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois, between May 1955 and October 1956.

(*) BONUS TRACKS:
Same personnel and place as above except on “Sweet Little Sixteen”
and “Rock & Roll Music” where Lafayette Leake plays piano.
Recorded between May 1955 and December 1957.

SIDE A

01. SCHOOLDAY (RING RING GOES THE BELL)
02. DEEP FEELING
03. TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
04. WEE WEE HOURS
05. ROLY POLY
06. NO MONEY DOWN
07. MAYBELLENE (*)
08. ROCK & ROLL MUSIC (*)

SIDE B

01. BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN
02. BERRY PICKIN’
03. TOGETHER WE WILL ALWAYS BE
04. HAVANA MOON
05. DOWN BOUND TRAIN
06. DRIFTING HEART
07. SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN (*)
08. THIRTY DAYS (TO COME BACK HOME) (*)