Chuck Berry, the greatest rocker of them all, is back … and it looks like he's got the power again.

Back Home is the usual … Berry mix: three or four dynamite tracks, two or three good ones, two or three bombs…. [The] old genius/magic is still there in Berry's translation of the universal reality into rock and roll metaphor. (p. 46)

And Berry's perceptions are no less pointed, no less irresistible than they were in the Fifties. For instance, [as on] the latest adventures of the Berry existential man (Johnny B. Goode as culture hero)….

It's good. This is rough music, raw music, and it's all totally accessible, up front where you can grab it; you don't listen to this stuff so much as take part in it. And baby, that is rock and roll. (p. 48)

Michael Goodwin, "Records: 'Back Home'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc...