Personnel includes: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar); Peggy Jones (guitar); Jesse James Johnson (bass); Bill Downing, Frank Kirkland, Clifton James (drums); Jerome Green (maracas).Recorded in Chicago, Illinois in 1960. Originally released on ...
Includes liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo.Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media, North Hollywood, California).Personnel: Bo Diddley (guitar).Liner Note Author: Joseph F. Laredo.Recording information: 03/1955-11/19...
One couldn't in good faith call this brief ten-song set the "best" of Bo Diddley, since most of the cuts presented aren't the original versions (two-thirds of what is here is actually Bo Diddley in live performance, and some of the live mat...
Personnel: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar).Bo's music was beginning to slip in sales -- though he remained a popular concert act, as captured on the second half of this two-fer from the Aim label -- when Chess released Hey Bo Diddley in the ...
The Hal Leonard Bo Diddley Guitar Solos songbook offers note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 18 of the legenary bluesman's best-known songs. Included are hits like "Who Do You Love" and "Diddy Wah Diddy" with de...
Performers include: Taj Mahal, Tommy Castro, Corey Harris, Coco Montoya, Otis Rush, Charlie Musselwhite, Guitar Shorty.Personnel: Coco Montoya, Joe Louis Walker, Kris Wiley, Michael Burks, Otis Rush, Roy Gaines, Son Seals, Taj Mahal, Tom...
Personnel: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar); Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Little Walter (vocals, harmonica); Eddie Von Bach (vocals); Tommy Byrnes (guitar, piano); Eric Bell (guitar); Simon Hickling (harmonica); Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxophone...
Personnel includes: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar).MCA Special Products' Bo Knows Bo is an odd hodgepodge of highlights from Bo Diddley's classic Chess and Checker recordings. There are a number of hits and cult favorites here -- "Hey! Bo D...
Personnel: Bo Diddley; Cookie Vee, Johnny Otis, Shuggie Otis, Clifton John, Bobby Alexis, Chester Lindsey.In the first half of the '70s, Chess tried to relaunch Bo Diddley's career by making his material and production more in line with ...
BO'S BLUES includes lesser-known tracks from the Chess/Checker years.Personnel: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar); Peggy Jones (vocals, guitar); Jerome Green (vocals, maracas); The Moonglows (vocals); The Duchess, Jody Williams (guitar); Littl...
One of the great things about Bo Diddley, something that often goes unmentioned, is that he was a home-recording pioneer, building his own studio years before any other rocker. The full fruits of this labor can be heard on RIDE ON: THE CHES...
This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on R&B, and its various incarnations as Motown, Philadelphia Sound, and soul. Artists featured in concert footage and interviews include Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Tu...
This book explores the very humblest of beginnings and, at times, heart-rending tale of a poor black boy's struggle to free himself from the shackles of the ghetto and make it to the top. Bo Diddley: Living Legend offers a fascinating insig...