Depends on what format he was listening to Berry's famous stuff. The early MCA CD reissues of Berry and other Chess artists(Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, etc.)were mastered pretty lazily and really did sound tinny. Plus there's the fact that contemporarary rock and pop music features super compressed mastering.

It would be great it the site did one of their primers on him. A lot of people these days likely think of BB King as a borderline easy listening artist that somehow influenced a bunch of famous rock, r&b and funk musicians and would be surprised at how visceral his singing and playing were when he was in his…

Most people have no idea how influential that 60s Brit folk stuff was.

My tastes have actually gone backwards. When I was 20, my favorite bands were Helmet and Morphine; at 30, I got into Thin Lizzy and T-Rex. Now I'm 40 and I finally discovered Freddy King, The Faces and The Kinks. If the current trend holds, I'll be rocking out to Edison rolls of barbershop jams by late middle age…

That was originally recorded by a jump blues singer named Big Jay McShann.