If you thought you had heard the last of rock pioneer Chuck Berry, think again!

The 90 year old is set to release his first album in 38 years!

The album, his first since 1979’s “Rock It.” has been aptly titled “Chuck”.

His son plays guitar on the album and says that it covers the spectrum from rocking hits to ballads.

This is going to be amazing, it’s been in the making for almost 4 decades! We can always deal with a little more Chuck!

A statement on his website read:

ST. LOUIS, MO – OCTOBER 18, 2016 — Chuck Berry, the artist who codified the
sound, rhythm and language of rock and roll, celebrated his 90 th birthday today
with the surprise announcement that he will release a new album – titled simply
‘CHUCK’ – in 2017 on Dualtone Records (an Entertainment One Company).

Comprised primarily of new, original songs written, recorded and produced by the
founding rock and roll legend, ‘CHUCK’ is Berry’s first new album in thirty-eight
years. It was recorded in various studios around St. Louis and features Berry’s
longtime hometown backing group – including his children Charles Berry Jr.
(guitar) and Ingrid Berry (harmonica), plus Jimmy Marsala (Berry’s bassist of
forty years), Robert Lohr (piano), and Keith Robinson (drums) – which has
supported him for over two decades on over two hundred residency shows at the
famed Blueberry Hill club. More details about ‘CHUCK’ and other Berry-related
events will be revealed in the coming weeks.

“This record is dedicated to my beloved Toddy,” said Berry, referring to his wife
of 68 years, Themetta Berry. “My darlin’ I’m growing old! I’ve worked on this
record for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!”

“What an honor to be part of this new music,” says Charles Berry Jr. “The St.
Louis band, or as dad called us ‘The Blueberry Hill Band,’ fell right into the
groove and followed his lead. These songs cover the spectrum from hard driving
rockers to soulful thought provoking time capsules of a life’s work.”

Dualtone president Paul Roper adds: “It is a great honor to be a part of this
record and the broader legacy of Chuck Berry. This body of work stands with the
best of his career and will further cement Chuck as one of the greatest icons of
rock and roll.”

It would be impossible to overstate Chuck Berry’s influence on popular culture
around the globe (and beyond it). According to Rolling Stone magazine he “laid
the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance,” and
many of his compositions – “Maybellene,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Rock and Roll
Music” and others – have become the genre’s canonical texts. Another, “Johnny
B. Goode,” is the only rock and roll song included on the Voyager Golden
Record, launched into space in 1977, and intended to represent life and culture
on Earth to extraterrestrial beings.

Berry received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, and was in the inaugural class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees in 1986.

He was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in 2000, placed #5 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time in 2010, and was given the first-ever PEN Award for literary excellence in lyric writing in 2012, and Sweden’s Polar Music Prize in 2014. More recently, he was the subject of a widely discussed essay by author Chuck Klosterman predicting that hundreds of years hence, Berry would be singularly synonymous with rock and roll itself, and last month his classic 1973 red Cadillac Eldorado went on display as part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American Culture and History.

Chuck Berry on the Web:

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For more information on Chuck Berry please contact Matt Hanks

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