LONDON SESSIONS CHUCK BERRY CHESS

LONDON SESSIONS MUDDY WATERS CHESS

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN BO DIDDLEY CHESS

No longer does Chess squeeze the stoife by forcing their blues masters to make creepy Electric albums with psychedelic rock bands; thanks to the artistic and commercial success of The London Howlin Wolf Sessions they can use that town — more as a concept than a place - as Resurrection City. The Berry and Waters lps were recorded there and have been issued in a format conforming to Wolfs album; Diddley's, while cut here, is part of the same market approach — not so much Fathers & Sons as Uncles and Cousins. None of the three is as good as the Wolf album, but Chuck Berry's is a strange sort of classic. Being best, I've saved it for last so read on.