St. Louis to Liverpool

by Chuck Berry

Overview

This album puts the lie to the popular myth that Chuck Berry's music started to fade away around the same time that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, et al. emerged covering his stuff. His songwriting is as strong here as ever -- side one is packed with now-familiar fare like "Little Marie" (a sequel to "Memphis, Tennessee"), "No Particular Place to Go," "Promised Land," and "You Never Can Tell," but even filler tracks like "Our Little Rendezvous" and "You Two" are among Berry's better album numbers, the latter showing off the slightly softer pop/R&B side to his music that many listeners forget about. Side two includes a bunch of tracks, including the hard-rocking "Go Bobby Soxer" and the even better "Brenda Lee," the slow blues "Things I Used to Do" (with a killer guitar break), and the instrumentals "Liverpool Drive" and "Night Beat," one fast and the other slow, that never get reissued or compiled anywhere. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	04/13/2004
Label:	Chess
UPC:	0602498613528
Rank:	54207

Tracks

1. Little Marie
2. Our Little Rendezvous
3. No Particular Place to Go
4. You Two
5. Promised Land
6. You Never Can Tell
7. Go Bobby Soxer
8. The Things I Used to Do
9. Liverpool Drive
10. Night Beat
11. Merry Christmas, Baby
12. Brenda Lee
13. Fraulein
14. The Little Girl from Central
15. O'Rangutang

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chuck Berry   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Lafayette Leake   Guest Artist,Piano
Willie Dixon   Guest Artist,Bass
Odie Payne, Jr.   Drums
Ebby Hardy   Drums
Fred Below   Drums
Jasper Thomas   Drums
Paul Williams   Piano
James Robinson   Sax (Tenor)
Johnnie Johnson   Piano
Matt "Guitar" Murphy   Guitar

Technical Credits

Guitar Slim   Composer
Marshall Paul   Liner Notes
Mike Fink   Design
Beth Stempel   Production Coordination
Johnny Moore   Composer
Ryan Null   Photo Research
Andy McKaie   Reissue Producer
Bud Scoppa   Liner Notes
Chuck Berry   Composer
Lawton Williams   Composer
Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones   Composer
Phil Chess   Producer
Lou Baxter   Composer
Leonard Chess   Producer