The Big Easy List: Johnny B. Goode

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Now that we’ve had a trip to the hospital, let’s get back on the road to our original destination: New Orleans!! This song is a 180 from yesterday’s. I’ve turned us around so many times so quickly into this month that you don’t know which way we’re going…just that we must be heading the wrong way down Beale Street! Here’s today’s song. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry And I will see you tomorrow! Rock and roll’s daddy, singing a song that could easily be the national anthem of rock and roll. Let’s face it, if you don’t know this song, give up your rock and roll fan card. (Not you, Daddy Evil, you don’t even have one. ) This certainly wasn’t the first rock song (it was released in 1958, three years after the “rock-roll craze” started), and Chuck Berry wasn’t the first rock star (cough-cough Elvis). But somehow, someway, this song electrified the mix of blues and country that was going on and turned the world on its ear. If there were a Mount Rushmore of rock songs, this would occupy two places. It’s that important in music history. Johnny B. Goode Written by Chuck Berry Recorded by Chuck Berry Released as a single, 1958 NEW ORLEANS LYRICS: Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans