CBID - A Tribute to a Tribute to Chuck Berry

CBID is never complete as new records and CDs appear and some old rarities are discovered. This section presents interesting additions and corrections to CBID.

Today: Chapter 14 lists musical tributes to Chuck Berry. This includes tribute albums on which his music represents a large part, and it includes tribute songs in which title, lyrics or story refer to the man's life or music. One of the tribute albums reported recently now got a tribute on its own. And a new album is full of Berry covers, though only for download.

MIKE ZITO (USA)

Mike Zito received two awards from The Blues Foundation in Memphis during Blues Music Awards 2021 for the album:
CD: Rock’n’Roll – A Tribute To Chuck Berry [Ruf Records RUF-1269] 2019
First in the category Blues Rock Artist of the Year and then Blues Rock Album of the Year.
That’s also another Tribute to Chuck Berry if you ask me. The album is well documented on this blog.

AT THE HOP (Australia)

Rock n Roll tribute quintet from New South Wales, formed in 2003.

Johnny B. Goode / Roll Over Beethoven / Sweet Little Sixteen / Route 66 * / Maybellene / Rock And Roll Music / You Never Can Tell / Nadine / Run Rudolph Run / School Day / No Particular Place To Go / My Ding-A-Ling

Johnny B. Goode –A Tribute To Chuck Berry (Talking Clive - OMP [One Media Publishing]) ● 2012

They follow the Berry original arrangements as close as you could get, which is good but since you’ve heard all the songs before by Berry himself it’s somewhat a disappointment. And they could have skipped “Ding-A-Ling”. The only really interesting cover is “Route 66” which is very similar to Berry’s and not Stones. You don’t hear that too often.