The Great 28

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEYbZ1sI9bY&list=PLZ-KH7o-aD2hvjZOm3TEqAbFApc6-ee8w&index=1

Chuck Berry gets the moniker of "father of Rock and roll"

In 1955 Chuck Berry recorded Maybeline which riffed off of Bob Willi's "Ida Red."

Berry took the lead from Charles Hogan and replaced the leading piano with a leading guitar. The same stop time and 4 beat bar that traces through blues and jazz.

Berry took the showmanship of T-Bone Waler and amplified the swagger. and wrote lyrics on  themes of commercialism, fast cars,  and youth that Post WWII America wanted.

Berry wanted to play blues so when he moved to Chicqo Muddy Waters introduced Chuck to Leanord Chess of Chess records (the big Chicago Blues label)...When Leanord heard Berry's Maybeline version of Ida Red though Leonard recognized something special.

Rock and Roll, with its roots in the Jazz of New Orleans and the slave plantations of Texas was born.