Two Great Guitars

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Two Great Guitars | type = studio | artist = Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry | cover = Two Great Guitars - Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry.jpg | alt = | released = August 1964<ref name="berry-chess">{{cite web |url=http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/chessupto1966.html |title=A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry: The Chess Era (1955–1966) |last=Rudolph |first=Dietmar |accessdate=September 29, 2010}}</ref> | recorded = March 1964 | venue = | studio = Tel Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois<ref name="discogs">{{Cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Bo-Diddley-Chuck-Berry-Two-Great-Guitars/release/2432288|title = Bo Diddley / Chuck Berry – Two Great Guitars (1964, Vinyl)|website = Discogs}}</ref> | genre = Rock and roll, instrumental rock | length = 30:35 | label = Checker LP 2991<ref name="berry-chess"/> | producer = Andy McKaie | chronology = Bo Diddley | prev_title = Bo Diddley's Beach Party | prev_year = 1964 | next_title = Hey! Good Lookin' | next_year = 1965 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Chuck Berry | type = studio | prev_title = Chuck Berry on Stage | prev_year = 1963 | title = Two Great Guitars | year = 1964 | next_title = St. Louis to Liverpool | next_year = 1964 }} {{Singles | name = Two Great Guitars | type = studio | single1 = Chuck's Beat"/"Bo's Beat | single1date = August 1964 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/two-great-guitars-mw0000319908|title=AllMusic Review – Two Great Guitars|website=AllMusic|accessdate=October 28, 2017}}</ref> }} '''''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 in addition to Diddley's custom Jupiter Thunderbird guitar.

==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=== # <li value="5">"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

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==External links== *{{Discogs master|type=album|287465|name=Two Great Guitars}}

Category:Chuck Berry albums Category:Bo Diddley albums Category:1964 albums Category:Checker Records albums Category:Instrumental rock albums Category:Jam sessions