Malitz and I scoured the discographies of each band in the VFest lineup to come up with the 10 albums that belong in your collection. We debated doing 11, just to get Lil Wayne's "Da Drought 3" onto the list; but there's no symmetry to that number. And yes, there was a one-album-per-artist limit. That's Dylan's fault. The albums are listed in chronological order. Sort of: The Chuck Berry comp was released in 1982, but its songs came out decades earlier, during rock-and-roll's formative years. (Obligatory programming reminder: We'll be live-blogging from Pimlico Race Course all weekend. Check in often on Saturday and Sunday for updates.) Chuck Berry - "The Great Twenty-Eight" Everybody always talks about Berry's guitar work - and not without reason, as his archetypal double-string licks fill more than a few pages in the rock-and-roll playbook. But Berry was also the first truly great rock-and-roll songwriter, an ...
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