Fred Rothwell's
Long Distance Information: Chuck Berry's Recorded Legacy (Music Mentor Books, 2001) is the ultimate book for any serious Chuck Berry record collector: All Berry sessions, all the songs, all the session musicians, where to find which song if ever released, and tons of additional stuff.
First published in 2001 the book consists mainly of a 240 page commented "sessionography", a list of 93 recording sessions Chuck participated in between 1954 and 2000. For each session Fred lists the musicians and the songs recorded, whether released or not. For every song he shows a few main records containing it. He also fully describes and critizises every recording.
Chuck Berry's recorded legacy is not complete yet, though. Here is an addition to Fred's description of Session 66:
From the Chuck Berry songbook
Rock 'n' Roll Poet (see the
Bibliography), we learn that the song
Tell You About My Buddy is not an alternative short version of
Talkin' About My Buddy but a song on its own. The songbook again contains the lyrics, but not the notes of the song as well as those of the equally unpublished
Roll Away. Both songs were authored by Chuck Berry.