Berry's 18-Month in Jail

The first three singles he released in 1964, right after getting out of prison, were all bigger hits than he'd had since summer 1958. The other reason is that the material he recorded in the few years after Johnny B. Good wasn't his best. No matter how good a song he was, Memphis, Tennessee was about a man wanting to regain contact with his six-year-old daughter when he split up with her mother.