06.11.2013 - 08:55 [ vulture.com ]

Jody Rosen: Happy 87th Birthday, Chuck Berry!

(18.Oktober) He tours without a backing band: He turns up in a city, gets onstage with whatever local musicians his manager has rustled up, and he plays Chuck Berry’s greatest hits. Berry doesn’t need to rehearse the band because, if you can’t play the twelve-bar blues that Berry’s songbook is built on — if, for that matter, you don’t know Chuck Berry’s songbook — you’ve got no business being a rock-and-roll musician.