One bit of feedback that I treasure precedes that post by quite a while. I was pleased to learn from the more recent comments that there are people who appreciate the CD-R length of the mixes and that some actually print out the covers. I play these mixes off my smartphone, so I have no use for the covers. I make them for the fun of it, in the hope that one or the other reader has use for them.
So knowing that they are being used is great. I will post more of these Any Major Decade mixes over the next few months. This mix is, as always, timed to fit on a standard CD-R. PW in comments. Steve Earle — N. More Mixed CD-Rs. Berry himself said that he had based Maybellene on country legend Bob Wills vocal version of the traditional fiddle number Ida Red, recorded in The foundation of Maybelline was country, but the building was rhythm and blues.
The genre, which itself is so diffuse, was the result of a relatively slow evolution. And for that a series of big, small and tiny bangs were needed.
Chuck Berry, influencing some white kid in England…or Hill Valley. Unlike Elvis, Berry wrote his own songs, and this is the subject of this mix: 26 covers of tracks written by Chuck Berry between and the mix is a result of me taking the bait from regular reader and radio presenter Martin.
What is striking is how few black artists covered Chuck Berry. On this mix I count three. Similarly, very few women covered Berry which the old misogynist might have been pleased about. Which raises the question: Is Chuck Berry music the soundtrack of white maleness? Answers on a postcard, please. Of my joint-favourite Berry songs, one is covered as one would expect it and as it has to be by The Beach Boys.
