Chuck Berry x Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - Johnny B Goode
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Chuck Berry x Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - Johnny B Goode
St. Louis was a great blues town, but Chicago was bigger, and Chicago had Muddy Waters. The first time Chuck Berry heard the singer and guitarist, he said, “he cracked open my soul to everything he said in his songs. I felt like I knew him.”
Now Berry wanted to meet him.
He wanted to meet Waters in the hope that the recording star could give him advice about following in his footsteps. So he drove to Chicago with his high school friend Ralph Burris in his red Ford Country Squire station wagon. The friends caught a few performers that weekend, but Waters was the one that mattered, and after watching him Berry went up and told him he was a musician too. He asked the totemic Waters if he would help him get a recording contract. Waters thought a minute, perhaps wondering if he was making a mistake recommending this stranger to his own label.
Waters said the visit happened at the Dew Drop Lounge, where he had a regular Sunday matinee gig. He gave Berry the address to Chess Records and told him that the office opened at nine, so get there at ten, when Leonard Chess would arrive. “Tell Leonard Chess I sent him there!” Waters said.
St. Louis was a great blues town, but Chicago was bigger, and Chicago had Muddy Waters. The first time Chuck Berry heard the singer and guitarist, he said, “he cracked open my soul to everything he said in his songs. I felt like I knew him.”
Now Berry wanted to meet him.
He wanted to meet Waters in the hope that the recording star could give him advice about following in his footsteps. So he drove to Chicago with his high school friend Ralph Burris in his red Ford Country Squire station wagon. The friends caught a few performers that weekend, but Waters was the one that mattered, and after watching him Berry went up and told him he was a musician too. He asked the totemic Waters if he would help him get a recording contract. Waters thought a minute, perhaps wondering if he was making a mistake recommending this stranger to his own label.
Waters said the visit happened at the Dew Drop Lounge, where he had a regular Sunday matinee gig. He gave Berry the address to Chess Records and told him that the office opened at nine, so get there at ten, when Leonard Chess would arrive. “Tell Leonard Chess I sent him there!” Waters said.
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