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Two Great Guitars

Studio album by Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry

Released

August 1964

Recorded

March 1964

Studio

Tel Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois

Genre

Rock and roll, instrumental rock

Length

30:35

Label

Checker LP 2991

Producer

Andy McKaie

Bo Diddley chronology

Bo Diddley's Beach Party
(1964)

Two Great Guitars
(1964)

Hey! Good Lookin'
(1965)

Chuck Berry chronology

Chuck Berry on Stage
(1963)

Two Great Guitars
(1964)

St. Louis to Liverpool
(1964)

Singles from Two Great Guitars

"Chuck's Beat"/"Bo's Beat"
Released: August 1964

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Two Great Guitars is a studio album by Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, released in August 1964 by Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records. It was the first studio album issued by Berry after his release from prison in October 1963.

Diddley and Berry were friends, and both recorded for Chess. The album consists of two lengthy spontaneous instrumental jams and a few recently recorded instrumentals by the two guitarists; additional instrumental recordings, three by Diddley and one by Berry, are included in the compact disc reissue. The album cover shows a Gibson ES-350T owned by Berry and a guitar created by Diddley.

Track listing

Side one

"Liverpool Drive" (Chuck Berry) – 2:56
"Chuck's Beat" (Berry, Ellas McDaniel) – 10:39

Side two

"When the Saints Go Marching In" (Traditional; arranged by McDaniel) – 2:52
"Bo's Beat" (McDaniel, Berry) – 14:08

Reissue bonus tracks

"Fireball" (McDaniel) – 2:51
"Stay Sharp" (McDaniel) – 3:44
"Chuckwalk" (Berry) – 2:30
"Stinkey" (McDaniel) – 2:35

Personnel

Musicians

Chuck Berry – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7)
Bo Diddley – guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8)
Norma-Jean Wofford (aka The Duchess) – second guitar (tracks 3, 5, 8)
Peggy Jones (aka Lady Bo) – second guitar (track 6)
Jerome Green – maracas (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6)
Lafayette Leake – piano (tracks 2, 4)
Jesse James Johnson – bass guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6)
Billy Downing – drums (tracks 2, 4)

Technical

Andy McKaie – producer
Ron Malo – engineer
Esmond Edwards – cover photography
Don Bronstein – cover design and artwork

References

^ Rudolph, Dietmar. "A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Chess Era (1955–1966)". Retrieved September 29, 2010.
"Bo Diddley / Chuck Berry – Two Great Guitars (1964, Vinyl)". Discogs.
"AllMusic Review – Two Great Guitars". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2017.

External links

Two Great Guitars at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e Chuck Berry
Studio albums	After School Session (1957) One Dozen Berrys (1958) Berry Is on Top (1959) Rockin' at the Hops (1960) New Juke Box Hits (1961) Two Great Guitars (with Bo Diddley) (1964) St. Louis to Liverpool (1964) Chuck Berry in London (1965) Fresh Berry's (1965) Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967) Chuck Berry in Memphis (1967) From St. Louie to Frisco (1968) Concerto in "B Goode" (1969) Back Home (1970) San Francisco Dues (1971) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) (Side 1) Bio (1973) Chuck Berry (1975) Rockit (1979) Chuck (2017)
Live albums	Chuck Berry on Stage (1963) Live at the Fillmore Auditorium (1967) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) (Side 2) Chuck Berry Live in Concert (1978) Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987) Live! (2000) Live on Stage (2000) Chuck Berry – In Concert (2002)
Compilations	Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) Chuck Berry Twist (1962) Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (1967, 1973, 1974) The Great Twenty-Eight (1982) The Chess Box (1988) The Anthology (2000) Volume 2 (1995)
Singles	"Maybellene" / "Wee Wee Hours" (1955) "Roll Over Beethoven" / "Drifting Heart" (1956) "Too Much Monkey Business" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1956) "School Days" / "Deep Feeling" (1957) "Rock and Roll Music" / "Blue Feeling" "Sweet Little Sixteen" / "Reelin' and Rockin'" (1958) "Carol"/ "Hey Pedro" (1958) "Johnny B. Goode" / "Around and Around" (1958) "Run Rudolph Run" (1958) "Almost Grown" / "Little Queenie" (1959) "Back in the U.S.A." / "Memphis, Tennessee" (1959) "Nadine" (1964) "No Particular Place to Go" (1964) "My Ding-a-Ling" (1972)
Other articles	Discography Chuck Berry House Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Chess Records Johnnie Johnson Gibson ES-350T Gibson ES-355
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v t e Bo Diddley
Singles	"Bo Diddley"/"I'm a Man" (1955) "Diddley Daddy"/"She's Fine, She's Mine" (1955) "Pretty Thing" (1955) "Diddy Wah Diddy" (1956) "Who Do You Love?" (1956) "Hey! Bo Diddley" (1957) "Before You Accuse Me" (1958) "Say Man" (1959) "Road Runner" (1960) "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962)
Studio albums	Go Bo Diddley (1959) Have Guitar, Will Travel (1960) Bo Diddley in the Spotlight (1960) Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger (1960) Bo Diddley Is a Lover (1961) Bo Diddley's a Twister (1962) Bo Diddley (1962) Bo Diddley & Company (1962) Surfin' with Bo Diddley (1963) Two Great Guitars (1964) Hey! Good Lookin' (1965) Super Blues (1967) The Super Super Blues Band (1968) Another Dimension (1971) Where It All Began (1972) The London Bo Diddley Sessions (1973) Big Bad Bo (1974) Breaking Through the B.S. (1989) This Should Not Be (1992) A Man Amongst Men (1996)
Live albums	Bo Diddley's Beach Party (1963) Hey... Bo Diddley: In Concert (1986) Live at the Ritz (1988)
Compilation albums	Bo Diddley (1958) His Best (1997)
Collaborators	Billy Boy Arnold Lester Davenport Willie Dixon Harvey Fuqua Jerome Green Clifton James Johnnie Johnson Peggy Jones Jody Williams Norma-Jean Wofford
Related articles	Discography Bo Diddley beat
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