his heart’s beating rhythm & his soul keeps a-singing the blues.
A few of the wonderful performance and portrait shots of Chuck Berry at the Berkeley Blues Festival, 27 February 1965, from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection. These were likely taken by Berkeley Folk Music Festival director and amateur photographer Barry Olivier.
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Hear Chris Strachwitz discuss Berry’s West Coast visit in 1965
Chris Strachwitz—Arhoolie Records proprietor, vernacular music collector, anti-Mickey Mouse music proponent, and 1965 Berkeley Blues Festival co-producer—on Berry at the 1965 Berkeley Blues Festival and his visit out on the West Coast that year.