Chuck Berry

INCLUDES 10 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential edition includes Chuck Berry’s magni!cent debut LP, After School Session, originally released in 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 item also contains 10 bonus tracks from the same recording period, including great numbers such as “Rock & Roll Music,” “Oh Baby Doll,” “You Can’t Catch Me,” “Thirty Days (to Come Back Home),” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and the outstanding single “Maybellene,” which climbed to #1 on the US R&B charts in 1955. All of these original gems –which have been brilliantly remastered to achieve the most pristine sound– are simpletwo-and-a-halfminute songs that convey all the sheer power and emotion of rock & roll.

PERSONNEL:

CHUCK BERRY, vocals and guitar, plus:

Willie Dixon (bass), Otis Spann, Johnnie Johnson, Lafayette Leake (piano),
Fred Below, Ebby Hardy (drums), Jerome Green (maracas), among others.

Recorded at Chess Studio. Chicago, Illinois, 1955-1957.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

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 BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN
08 BERRY PICKIN’
09 TOGETHER (WE’LL ALWAYS BE)
10 HAVANA MOON
11 THE DOWNBOUND TRAIN
12 DRIFTING HEART
13 OH BABY DOLL (*)
14 YOU CAN’T CATCH ME (*)
15 AROUND & AROUND (*)
16 MAYBELLENE (*)
17 ROCK & ROLL MUSIC (*)
18 BLUE FEELING (*)
19 IT DON’T TAKE BUT A FEW MINUTES (*)
20 IN-GO (*)
21 SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN (*)
22 THIRTY DAYS (TO COME BACK HOME) (*)

TOTAL TIME: 59:37

(*) BONUS TRACKS