Prospero | Drifting heart
Chuck Berry, rock’s first singer-songwriter
Remembering a music icon and storyteller
By D.H.
The main guy was Louis Jordan. I wanted to sing like Nat Cole with lyrics like Louis Jordan with the swing of Benny Goodman with Charlie Christian on guitar playing Carl Hogan’s riffs with the soul of Muddy Waters…oh I had it all mixed up.
—Chuck Berry to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show”
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