Bo Diddley - His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
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Artist: Bo DiddleyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-04-08
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
- Bo Diddley
- I'm A Man
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Diddley Daddy
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It To Jerome
- I'm Lookin' For A Woman
- Who Do You Love?
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Mona (AKA I Need You Baby)
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man
- Dearest Darling
- Crackin' Up
- The Story Of Bo Diddley
- Road Runner
- Pills
- I Can Tell
- You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
- Ooh Baby
Free Music Notes for His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Free Music Review: R.I.P. Bo!
Hit: 5 Stars
Another legend was taken from us on June 2, 2008. One of the greatest and most influential bluesmen has left us at the age of 79. The breadth of his influence can hardly be described in a few words. It is best heard in the music he left behind for us to share and in the musicians who were inspired and influenced by it. The first big hit for the Rolling Stones, after all, was a Buddy Holly song revved up with that Bo Diddley beat. The song was "Not Fade Away." The Stones also covered some of Bo's originals like "Crackin' Up" and "Mona" and again, utilized that beat on their own "Please Go Home." George Thorogood has made a career out of "Who Do You Love" and what bar band in the world has not run through "Roadrunner" a half a million times? Creedence and Clapton covered "Before You Accuse Me" and The New York Dolls did "Pills." I guess my point is that Bo Diddley was a major musical giant in the world of blues and rock. These musicians as well as those I did not mention are indebted to him for life as well as the fans.
Of course, to hear these songs in all their original glory is the best and most rewarding way to go. We have lost you, Bo, but not your music. That is what you gave to the world and the world is forever grateful for it. Time may have claimed your life, but you'll always be larger than life to me. You ARE the "Diddley Daddy."
His Best : The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Poster
"Sounds nice," Bo Diddley tongue-in-cheekily observes of his music in "The Story of Bo Diddley," one of three self-named tunes on this 20-track examination of his classic '50s and '60s Checker Records sides. Not only was the former Ellas McDaniels rhythmically sharp enough to have a beat named after himself; he had a great guitar sound and a seemingly endless supply of shaggy-dog stories, lover-man boasts, silly jokes, and complaints with which to fuse them. His Best boils down the two-CD Chess Box, including signature pieces like "Bo Diddley" and "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" alongside unjustly obscure tunes such as "Pills" (later covered by the New York Dolls) and "Dearest Darling." Great. --Rickey WrightBlues Music CDs
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