As this series did its best to prove, there are a lot of innovators who helped develop the guitar to become the single most important instrument in popular culture, but few, if any, did more to popularize the guitar than Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry…and they both worked at Chess Records in Chicago.

When we started this series, there were two guitarists who I knew would represent the absolute domination of the guitar on American culture, with rock and roll providing the means. These are those two guys. To cover their scope, we do our best to convey some of their biggest hits (of which we would need to cover all of them) and a few obscure numbers that display their unique styles.

Featured tracks include:

Maybelline

You Can’t Catch Me

Roly Poly

School Day

Deep Feeling

Johnny B. Goode

Carol

Liverpool Drive (all the above by Chuck Berry)

Bo Diddley

I’m a Man

Diddley Daddy

She’s Fine She’s Mine

Bo Diddley Is Loose

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Hey! Bo Diddley (all of the above by Bo Diddley)