Chuck Berry is 87 today (10/18/13)! To celebrate, here is one of his best, "Little Queenie," recorded directly from a nicely preserved 78! Happy birthday, Chuck! Let's rock!   1

timnapalm 18 Oct 2013

The August 2011 @MOJOmagazine covermount is titled "The Roots of Paul McCartney" and is a thrilling trip to the early days of rock and roll that influenced Sir Paul. Classics by Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, and other architects of the form make up the first two-thirds of the disc; providing a bridge to R&B; and balladry are the Coasters with Besame Mucho, which the nascent Beatles would later cover; it's all wrapped up with Gene Vincent doing "Over the Rainbow." The only twinge of discomfort comes with an Anita Bryant number, but it's her latter-day politics that bum me out—her take on "Till There Was You" is a fine one. Roughly half the songs here were eventually covered by McCartney with or without his famous group, two appearing on his 1999 golden age of rock 'n' roll tribute LP Run Devil Run. This is easily my favorite covermount in many months. (And while it runs the customary 15 tracks, it's also the shortest covermount I've seen yet, at a mere 35 minutes.)   2

covermount 9 Apr 2015