After School Session

Chuck Berry - steel guitar on "Deep Feeling", vocals, guitar, Johnnie Johnson - piano, Willie Dixon - bass, Fred Below - drums L. C. Davis - tenor saxophone on "Too Much Monkey Business" and "Drifting Heart", Jasper Thomas - drums, Ebby Hardy - drums Otis Spann - piano, Jimmy Rogers - guitar, Leonard & Phil Chess - producers Deluxe coloured vinyl and Cd package in original 1957 cover art Liner notes by rock n roll author musician and mojo writer Max Decharne All songs remastered Artwork designed by Sophie Lo. After School Session was Chuck Berry's debut LP, but when it appeared in 1957 he had already been famous for two years. The teen market in those days was based around singles, not albums, and he had built a formidable reputation releasing one killer 45 after another. Released in May 1957, the album came complete with sleeve notes describing the man himself as ur Rock-a-Billy Troubadour'. This, unquestionably, was rock'n'roll, and with this LP and its preceding singles, he laid down many of the genre's enduring ground rules. As the original back cover proudly stated, he songs are all original compositions written by Chuck, for Chuck, and as only Chuck can perform them'. Of course, other fine Chess musicians were backing him, but here was a star who sang, played, and crucially wrote his own material.