''Bio'' is the seventeenth studio album by

Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and de ...

, released in 1973 by

Chess Records Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock an ...

. The backing musicians were Elephants Memory, except on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chuck Berry. # "Bio" – 4:25 # "Hello Little Girl, Goodbye" – 3:56 # "Woodpecker" – 3:33 # "Rain Eyes" – 3:47 # "Aimlessly Driftin'" – 5:42 # "Got It and Gone" – 4:19 # "Talkin' About My Buddy" – 6:56

Personnel

* Chuck Berry –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, vocals ;Elephants Memory * Wayne "Tex" Gabriel – guitar * Gary Van Scyoc –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* Adam Ippolito – piano * Rick Frank –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Stan Bronstein –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

;Additional musicians * Billy Peek – guitar on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone" * Greg Edick – bass on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone" * Ron Reed – drums on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone" ;Technical * Esmond Edwards – producer * Bob Scerbo – production manager * David Krieger – art direction

Release

* Cassette Bio Universal Special Products 1995 * CD Bio Universal Distribution / Universal Japan 2010 * Cassette Bio Chess Special Products

References

External links

* Chuck Berry albums 1973 albums Albums produced by Esmond Edwards Chess Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub