Chuck Berry - Fresh Berrys
vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz + 16/44 | FLAC | 662mb/195mb
RS,FP,ZP,ML,usenet | Rock | 1966
Chess Records LPS-1498 | Original U.S. Pressing
Track Listing:
01 It Wasn't Me
02 Run, Joe
03 Every Day We Rock And Roll
04 One For My Baby
05 Welcome Back, Pretty Baby
06 It's My Own Business
07 Right Off Rampart Street
08 Vaya Con Dios
09 Merrily We Rock And Roll
10 My Mustang Ford
11 Ain't That Just Like A Woman
12 Wee Hour Blues
Personnel:
Chuck Berry - Guitar, Vocals
Chuck Bernhard - Bass
Mike Bloomfield - Guitar
Paul Butterfield - Harmonica
Johnnie Johnson - Piano
Jaspar Thomas - drums
Production:
Producers: Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Engineer: Ron Malo
Recorded September 1–2, 1965 at Ter Mar Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Vinyl Condition: VG++
Side 1: T LPS-1498-A (etched) XCSV126381-1A (stamped) 2 RT
Side 2: T LPS-1498-B (etched) o XCSV126382-1A (stamped) o 2 TX
DR13
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CoolEditPro for DC Bias offset correction, gain adjust
Izotope RX2 for manual declicking, resampling and dither to 16/44
FLAC encoded Level 8 with CDWave
Fresh Berry's is a studio album by American rock and roll icon Chuck Berry. The album was first released by Chess Records in the United Kingdom in November 1965. It was later released in the United States in April 1966 as an LP record in both mono and stereo formats. The US and UK versions of the album have a slightly different track listing. Where the UK release contains the song Sad Day - Long Night, the U.S. version contains the song Welcome Back, Pretty Baby.
Chuck Berry's last album for Chess, for the next four years, has him back in the U.S., and running smack into the mid-'60s blues revival, playing with the likes of Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield (who were beginning a brief but productive association with Muddy Waters around this time). The material varies from first-rate songs ("It Wasn't Me," "My Mustang Ford," "Ain't That Just Like a Woman") that sound utterly contemporary, to fascinating experiments ("One for My Baby") and filler like "Everyday We Rock and Roll" and "Merrily We Rock and Roll." He still rocks out, and sounds like he's having a great time playing blues with Bloomfield and Butterfield ("Sad Day-Long Night" etc.), sounding like an old Chicago bluesman, which, ironically, was the direction he chose to go in during his subsequent four-year stint with Mercury Records. He still does some straight rock & roll -- "It's My Own Business" is a great teen rebellion number -- and occasionally indulges his taste for music from the islands ("Run Joe"), in what was essentially an era-closing album, and his last attempt at making a contemporary album with his established sound. Berry's next step was four years of neglect, followed by his rediscovery as an "oldies" act.