Chuck Berry’s low-slung guitar as he duck-walked across the stage is an iconic image, but the engine that drove his earliest recordings was Johnnie Johnson’s piano. Berry tapped into the teenager’s mindset with his poetic masterpieces even though he was already 30 by the time of his first Chess Records release. Although the exact date […]
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