Chuck Berry - Let It Rock

Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. There would be no standard "Chuck Berry guitar intro," the instrument's clarion call to get the joint rockin' in any setting. The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat. There would be no obsessive wordplay by modern-day tunesmiths; in fact, the whole history (and artistic level) of rock & roll songwriting would have been much poorer without him. Like Brian Wilson said, he wrote "all of the great songs and came up with all the rock & roll beats." Those who do not claim him as a seminal influence or profess a liking for his music and showmanship show their ignorance of rock's development as well as his place as the music's first great creator. Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.
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In The Heat Of The Day Down In Mobile Alabama
Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer
Gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes
Tryin' to find somebody to take away these blues
"She don't love me" hear them singing in the sun
Payday's coming and my work is all done

Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow
Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks
Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back
Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about
We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out

Everybody's scrambling,'n'jumping around
Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down
Foreman wants to panic, 'bout to go insane
Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
Engineer blows the whistle long and long
Can't stop the train, gotta let it roll on

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[ZephyrOrDie]

@PomonaPunkRock Also known as B Flat

[normanramsey94]

The reason it sounds like Johnny B. Goode is that it, as well as most chuck berry songs, is a 12 Bar Blues progression. It is very, very common in blues/rock &roll music.

[szello22]

ez egyszerűen zseniális, nem lehet megunni, csak az a baj, hogy már nem bírok táncolni.

[dpohlson]

Long live rock 'n roll! Timeless classic.

[ScotsmanRex]

Blue collar music at its best. Doesn't matter if your from the north or south. This music speaks to the working class which is the 90% of America. I love this stuff!

[TheSkaggs54]

Mel Mcdaniel has a great version of this too!!

[cesarececeadda]

can't stop the train they had to let it roll on

[TheDJGrandPa]

@jb137719 I have, but it took me a while and some thousands of playthroughs

[mashui99]

@alexandra2921able Well some of that bled over from the blues

[alexandra2921able]

@Maxbtwshow it sounds exactly like Johnny B Goode, Roll over Beethoven and Carol. Yes, all 4 of them have the exact same intro and rhythm, but hey its fucking good

[inDeepTroub1e]

@scatered1 no kidding :P

[scatered1]

this is either the before or after story of johnny b. goode