Aug 31 2008
Chuck Berry still rocking at 81

Chuck Berry closed the first night (Saturday, August 30) of the two-day Long Beach Blues Festival in Long Beach, California. British blues legend John Mayall, New Orleans’ the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, blues piano patriarch Pinetop Perkins, Northern Californian slide slinger Roy Rogers and Jamaican soul vocalist Roy Young were also on the bill. Sunday night’s (August 31) lineup featured the Taj Mahal Trio, Booker T. Jones, Charlie Musselwhite, Eddie Floyd, Joe Louis Walker and Ana Popovic.