{"id":886,"date":"2016-04-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2024-02-17T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:26:22","slug":"memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis (Chuck Berry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Memphis (Chuck Berry)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qq01Vv4YZSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are a few things in my past I look back on with shame, and one is that I was such a wrongheaded pseudo-folk-purist that it took the Kweskin Jug Band&#8217;s version of &#8220;Memphis&#8221; to make me realize the song might be appropriate material for a serious young folksinger like myself. Admittedly I was only about twelve years old, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;d heard Chuck Berry&#8217;s <em>Golden Decade <\/em>by the time I heard the Kweskin version, and I know I always liked Berry&#8217;s version better that the Jug Band&#8217;s, which frankly was not one of their stronger performances. But I<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-889 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Chuck-Berry.jpg?resize=210%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"229\" \/> thought of\u00a0 Berry as playing teen oldies music &#8212; better than the Monkees, but still closer to them than to someone like Skip James or Mississippi John Hurt, or Muddy Waters.<\/p>\n<p>At that point I had no idea that Waters had been an early mentor to Berry, nor had I yet discovered the Rolling Stones, who had helped a lot of my folk-blues revival models make that connection. I was coming to all of this late, and kind of feeling my own way with a hodge-podge of various older friends&#8217; records as guideposts. 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But on the other hand, the first three Berry songs I learned had &#8212; not coincidentally &#8212; been recorded by young, white, revivalists: &#8220;Memphis&#8221; from the Kweskin aggregation, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/no-money-down\/\">No Money Down<\/a>&#8221; from John Hammond, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/much-monkey-business\/\">Too Much Monkey Business<\/a>&#8221; from Tom Rush.<\/p>\n<p>I did grow up, eventually, and we&#8217;ll get to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/nadine\/\">Nadine<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/promised-land\/\">Promised Land<\/a>&#8221; in later posts. 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