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The 1930s blues guitarist who got Chuck Berry his big break: “Why don’t you go see Leonard Chess?”
['Ben Forrest']
Far Out Magazine
The 1930s blues guitarist who got Chuck Berry his big break: “Why don’t you go see Leonard Chess?”
It is difficult to envision a musical world in which Chuck Berry did not become the first guitar hero of the rock and roll age.
Nevertheless, the margins by which Chuck Berry became a household name were impossibly slim.
Berry had a hero-worship of Waters that is shared by virtually every blues guitarist.
At long last, Chuck Berry had arrived, and he suddenly found himself the most sought-after musician on the Chess roster, a ready-made rock and roll revolution.