Description:Berry's first album was in one sense a cobbled-together job typical of the early rock era, with a number of singles sitting beside various not-ready-for-AM castoffs. Further, this budget-line abridgement makes it choppier. But After School Session, possibly inadvertently, paints a good picture of Berry's music; not only are protest 45Berry's first album was in one sense a cobbled-together job typical of the early rock era, with a number of singles sitting beside various not-ready-for-AM castoffs. Further, this budget-line abridgement makes it choppier. But After School Session, possibly inadvertently, paints a good picture of Berry's music; not only are protest 45s such as "School Day" and "Too Much Monkey Business" on board, so are laid-back blues ("Wee Wee Hours," "Deep Feeling") and calypso ("Havana Moon"). Not as essential as his greatest-hits packages, but an intriguing and entertaining listen nonetheless. --Rickey Wright... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Mca Special Products Release date : 9 May 1995 EAN: 0076742087326 UPC: 076742087326
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"I never met anyone in my life that said a bad thing about Chuck Berry. Even people I played around as a kid that whine about his tone and how the power chords are 'backwards' will admit he was something else off this world when they first heard him. If I was a little boy when Chuck Berry first came out, I would have been imitating his dance moves while playing my guitar wishing I could play the songs from this record.
One way or another, a record like After School Session makes you want to pla"