Bo Diddley - The Definitive Collection
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Artist: Bo DiddleyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Music Label: Geffen Records
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
- 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 The Definitive Collection
Free Music Review: I Said -Who Do You Love?
Hit: 5 Stars
The last time I had occasion to mention the late Bo Diddley in this space was in connection with a series of interviews and performances along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard and others in Keith Richards Chuck Berry tribute film Hail, Hail Rock and Roll. The talk centered, rightly, on the dismal fate of many black recording artists who developed what would become Rock and Roll when the white artists like Elvis took it over and reaped the benefits of a mass audience. Well, those interviews occurred a while ago, back in the 1980's, but Bo's sense of not having been properly recognized I believe remained until his death. Yet, when one thinks of the sounds created by the founders of Rock and Roll can anyone deny that Bo's primal beat was not central to that explosion? I think not.
Here, in one album we have, if not all of Bo's creative work then a good part of it, at least a good place to start. Of course, the classic song Bo Diddley and its offshoots and variations are here. However, the one Diddley song that will probably outlive them all though is Who Do You Love. Although not a theme song it nevertheless expresses the raw energy of rhythm and blues/ rock/ carib sound like not other. Hell, George Throughgood was able to make a whole career on the basis of having covered that song and other Bo work (and to be fair, covering the work of Elmore James and Hound Dog Taylor as well).
And that is a good point to finish on. The really great rockers, and Bo is in that company, unlike the one-shot johnnies get covered because their work expresses something that someone else later wishes to high heaven that they had created. (George has been quoted directly on that point.) Finally, I give the same warning here as others have given in their comments about the sameness of this CD and the Chess 50th Anniversary CD from 1997. Get one or the other and save those pennies to get more of Bo's work. "I said- I'm just 22 and I don't mind dying. Who do you love?" Thanks for that line Bo. Kudos
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