CHUCK BERRY - You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess 1960-1966 (2009)
The accepted mythology is that Chuck Berry was the only one of rock's greats to make it through the supposed drought of 1960-1964 with his career and his creativity intact. Jerry Lee wound up a country act, Elvis became a b-grade movie star, Little Richard never regained his momentum even after he reconciled with rock, and many others were, well, were dead. Chuck himself had spent two years in the jug for carting a 14-year-old across state lines to be a "hat check girl" (she was later caught whoring), so it was impressive that Chuck still made music at all, much less regained the charts with classics like "Nadine," "No Particular Place To Go," and "You Never Can Tell." Indeed, those singles rank with his best. Yet the truth made clear by this 4-CD set, the sequel to a "complete '50s" collection by Hip-O, is that Berry had already begun to flag in 1960 and 1961, before his troubles; the two albums he made during this time find him alternately rewriting his classic hits ("Sweet Sixteen"), retreating into standard St. Louis blues ("Driftin' Blues"), and searching for that elusive pop hit ("Diploma For Two"). Solid stuff by anyone's standards but Chuck's, in other words. Upon his release, however, he entered a 18-month period of creativity where most of his later classics were born, and it's this burst that the timeline nature of this set brings out. This set might be only necessary for collectors were it not for a full live album (planned, never issued) that's easily the hottest Chuck-in-concert ever waxed; another entire album of extended guitar jams between Berry and Bo Diddley, and those great singles, which reveal some excellent discoveries (the instrumental b-side "O Rangutang," covers of "Fraulein" and "The Things That I Used To Do"), all of which underscore Chuck's brief yet potent return. A mythbuster, yes, but an entertaining one.
DISC 1:
01. Drifting Blues
02. I Got To Find My Baby
03. I Got To Find My Baby (Stereo Remix)
04. Don't You Lie To Me
05. Worried Life Blues
06. Our Little Rendezvous
07. Bye Bye Johnny
08. Bye Bye Johnny (Stereo Remix)
09. Run Around
10. Run Around (Stereo Remix)
11. Jaguar and Thunderbird
12. Diploma For Two
13. Little Star
14. Way It Was Before, The
15. Away From You
16. Down the Road Apiece
17. Down the Road Apiece (Stereo Remix)
18. Confessin' the Blues
19. Sweet Sixteen
20. Thirteen Question Method
21. Stop and Listen
22. I Still Got the Blues
23. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
24. Mad Lad (Instrumental)
25. Surfin' Steel (Cryin' Steel) (Instrumental)
26. Route 66 (Take 10)
27. Route 66 (Alt. Take 11)
28. I'm Talking About You
29. Rip It Up
30. Come On
31. Come On (Alternate - Stereo)
32. Adulteen - (previously unreleased)
33. Man and the Donkey, The
DISC 2:
01. Go Go Go - (alternate take)
02. Go Go Go
03. Trick or Treat
04. Brown Eyed Handsome Man - (previously unreleased)
05. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
06. Brown Eyed Handsome Man (Stereo Remix)
07. All Aboard
08. Live Recordings
09. Guitar Boogie - (previously unreleased)
10. Let It Rock - (previously unreleased)
11. Almost Grown - (previously unreleased)
12. Chuck Berry Dialog - (previously unreleased)
13. Johnny B. Goode - (previously unreleased)
14. Introduction / Instrumental - (previously unreleased)
15. Sweet Little Sixteen - (previously unreleased)
16. Wee Wee Hours - (previously unreleased)
17. Chuck Berry Dialog - (previously unreleased)
18. Maybellene - (previously unreleased)
19. Medley: Goodnight Sweetheart/Goodnight/Johnny B. Goode/School Day - (previously unreleased)
20. Nadine (is It You?)
21. You Never Can Tell
22. Little Girl From Central, The
23. (The) Things I Used To Do
24. I'm In the Danger Zone - (previously unreleased)
DISC 3:
01. Fraulein
02. Lonely All the Time (Crazy Arms)
03. O Rangutang (Unfaded Instrumental)
04. Big Ben (Blues)
05. Promised Land
06. Brenda Lee
07. No Particular Place To Go
08. You Two
09. Liverpool Drive
10. Chuck's Beat
11. Bo's Beat
12. Little Marie
13. Go, Bobby Soxer
14. Lonely School Days
15. His Daughter Caroline
16. Dear Dad
17. Want To Be Your Driver
18. Spending Christmas - (previously unreleased)
19. Song of My Love, The
20. Butterscotch
21. After It's Over
22. Why Should We End This Way
DISC 4:
01. You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
02. She Once Was Mine
03. Jamaica Farewell
04. My Little Love Light
05. I Got a Booking
06. St. Louis Blues
07. Shake Rattle & Roll (Take 23) - (previously unreleased)
08. Wee Wee Hours - (previously unreleased)
09. Honey Hush (Take 3) - (previously unreleased)
10. Run Joe
11. It's My Own Business
12. One For My Baby (and One More For the Road)
13. Every Day We Rock and Roll
14. My Mustang Ford - (previously unreleased)
15. My Mustang Ford
16. My Mustang Ford (Stereo Remix)
17. Merrily We Rock and Roll
18. Vaya Con Dios
19. Wee Hour Blues
20. It Wasn't Me
21. It Wasn't Me (Stereo Remix)
22. Ain't That Just Like a Woman
23. Right Off Rampart Street
24. Welcome Back Pretty Baby
25. Sad Day, Long Night
26. Ramona Say Yes
27. Ramona Say Yes - (alternate take)
28. Viva Viva Rock 'N Roll
29. His Daughter Caroline (Fast Version)
30. Lonely School Days (Fast Version)
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