Chuck BerryBest Chuck Berry Albums Ranked

The Chess Box

rollingstone

10

“"Maybellene," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Johnny B. Goode," "Memphis" and "Promised Land" are six damn good reasons a Great Retro Box treatment of Chuck Berry is long overdue. And there are sixty-five more just like them on The Chess Box, the first thorough, quality vinyl examination of Berry’s vital Chess Records catalog and […]”

Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Recordings

pitchfork

9.5

“Everything-- or at least everything that matters-- recorded by Chuck Berry for Chess in the 1950s. Rock'n'roll is older than Chuck Berry, but one can argue this collection as much as any collection documents where rock'n'roll as we know it really begins.”

CHUCK

pitchfork

6.3

“In his final years, Chuck Berry endeavored to make another record worthy of his rock’n’roll legacy. The resulting Chuck is a collection of new songs and covers that meditate on love and mortality.”

Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969-1974

rollingstone

6.0

“How’s this for weird? Chuck Berry’s only Number One pop single was not "Maybellene" or "Johnny B. Goode." It was the naughty 1972 cheeseball "My Ding-A-Ling." That freak smash, recorded live at a show in England, unfairly defined Berry’s last years at Chess, during which he made solid cruising-rhythm records with electric-country overtones such as […]”