Chuck Berry - Discography [FLAC]

  Chuck Berry - Discography [FLAC]

  Genres: Rock, R&B
  Codec: FLAC 
  Source: CD
  Bit rate: ~ 900 kbps 
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  2007 Johnny B. Good His Complete 50's Chess Recordings
  2009 You Never Can Tell - The Complete Chess Recordings 1960-66
  2010 Have Mercy - His Complete Chess Recordings 1969-1974
  2014 Chuck Berry - Rock and Roll Music Any Old Way You Choose It (16 CD)

  Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. There would be no standard "Chuck Berry guitar intro," the instrument's clarion call to get the joint rockin' in any setting. The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat. There would be no obsessive wordplay by modern-day tunesmiths; in fact, the whole history (and artistic level) of rock & roll songwriting would have been much poorer without him. Like Brian Wilson said, he wrote "all of the great songs and came up with all the rock & roll beats." Those who do not claim him as a seminal influence or profess a liking for his music and showmanship show their ignorance of rock's development as well as his place as the music's first great creator. Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset