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Chess · Universal Music Group

Johnny B. Goode

Chess, under Universal. The moral is practice.

Chess put it out. Universal holds the catalog. Strip the show and it is a mother, a railroad, and a boy who practiced until the guitar could say his name.

A child who wants to be seen should hear this, and then be pointed at the part that happens before the crowd.

The eight

  1. Industry

    9/10

    A guitar lesson disguised as a story. He means the practice.

  2. Household

    5/10

    A mother who tells him he will be heard. That is a house doing its job.

  3. Piety

    3/10

    No chapel. Ambition, treated as clean.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    He does the work before anyone is watching.

  5. Republic

    5/10

    A boy from nowhere, owed a hearing if the craft is real.

  6. Temperance

    6/10

    The night is loud. The days of practice are the point.

  7. Truth

    7/10

    He will not pretend the gift arrived without the sitting down.

  8. Stewardship

    7/10

    A picture of how a craft starts.

Live historicallyAfter it plays, the instrument comes out. Ten minutes of the unglamorous part.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1970

A&M · Universal Music Group

Close to You

A&M, under Universal. Birds, stars, and a person. The scale is sincere.

A&M released it. Universal holds A&M. The Carpenters sang as if a well-ordered love were not embarrassing. It isn't.

Play it low, in the house, about a real person.

The eight

  1. Industry

    8/10

    The arrangement is gentle and exact.

  2. Household

    7/10

    One person, wondered at. Not a crowd.

  3. Piety

    5/10

    Wonder, aimed at a face.

  4. Courage

    4/10

    No test. A thanks.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    Two people.

  6. Temperance

    8/10

    Soft, and it does not grab.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    The hyperbole is a way of saying the plain thing.

  8. Stewardship

    7/10

    A kitchen song. Keep it.

Live historicallyOnce, at supper, with the person in the room.

Annie