Tag Archives: bo diddley

Love, Grateful Dead recordings added to National Recording Registry

May 23, 2012 | Chris Junior | 0

Latest batch also includes works by Parliament, Bo Diddley and Booker T. and the MG’s ►

Deserving acts are on the outside looking in to the Rock Hall

March 14, 2012 | Susan Sliwicki | 14

Discoveries columnist Todd Baptista weighs in on a few of the deserving artists who’ve been excluded from The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame but deserve to be there. ►

George Thorogood drops by ‘2120 South Michigan Avenue’

April 5, 2011 | Chris Junior | 0

New album is a salute to such great Chess Records artists as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and others ►

Dahl’s Digs: Rediscover your favorites on new CDs, DVDs

April 20, 2010 | Zach Sorscher@fwmedia.com | 0

The monumental influence of Bo Diddley on the development of rock and roll guitar has never been more extensively chronicled than on Hip-O Select’s essential I’m a Man: The Chess Masters, 1955-1958.
This two-CD blockbuster contains all 48 masters the shave-and-a-haircut rhythm wizard waxed for Checker during his most seminal period. ►

Blues Lounge: The King of post-war Chicago blues and more

October 1, 2009 | Goldmine Staff | 0

Chicago didn’t give birth the blues. But the genre metamorphosed there. The king of electric post-war Chicago blues was slide guitarist Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield, 1915-83). Filmed in 1981, “Live At Chicagofest” (Shout! Factory) shows him as down-home regal but aging.
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Dahl's Digs: Run the scale from Diddley to doo-wop to Darin

October 23, 2008 | Goldmine Staff | 0

Jan & Dean’s early ’60s hits were the perfect musical personification of the sun-and-fun southern California lifestyle: surfing and hot rodding were their twin passions. So, how can you recapture that fun now? And what other new releases are out from your favorites? ►