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Album Description: The Roots of Chuck Berry is such a good idea for a compilation, and is so well executed by Catfish Records, that it's a crying shame more listeners don't know about it. Starting off with Goree Carter & His Hepcats' "Rock Awhile" from 1941, the disc ranges across decades of R... read more The Roots of Chuck Berry is such a good idea for a compilation, and is so well executed by Catfish Records, that it's a crying shame more listeners don't know about it. Starting off with Goree Carter & His Hepcats' "Rock Awhile" from 1941, the disc ranges across decades of R&B, including Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman," Big Maceo's "Worried Life Blues," T-Bone Walker's "Mean Old World," Tommy Dorsey's "Boogie Woogie," Ella Mae Morse's highly stylized rendition of "House of Blue Lights," Tampa Red's "Don't You Lie to Me," and the Will Bradley Trio doing "Down the Road Apiece." The annotation is nicely thorough, with a good account of the original's importance -- the mastering quality varies slightly with the vintage of the source material, but all of this would pass muster with casual listeners as well as serious blues and R&B enthusiasts. The only flaw is in the indexing, which doesn't match the listed tracks, a result of the producers' (or engineer's) decision to combine the first and second parts of Illinois Jacquet's "Flying Home," which existed as separate sides, onto one track. ~ Bruce Eder minimize Album Information
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