Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
(Chess 1958)
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
The Smiths, The Clash, Buddy Holly and The Fall; Captain Beefheart, the Rolling Stones and The Who. All have made music in various states of indebtedness to Ellas McDaniel of McComb, Mississippi, AKA Bo Diddley. Having graduated from busking on Chicago's street corners with maraca-shaking pal Jerome Green, Bo's raw materials - his mighty 'shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits' rhumba-boogie rhythm, and the shimmering distortion he routinely fuzzed out with that whacko oblong guitar (electrified using his old mum's radio set) and self-built speakers (he said these homebrewed sounds were from "from the
Clive Prior
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 20/11/2009
Further Listening
Bo Diddley – Go Bo Diddley (Checker, 1959)
Bo Diddley – Have Guitar Will Travel (Checker, 1960)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (Track, 1967)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
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yes yes yes. coolest of them all.
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Bo Diddley is The Man!!!
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a correction -
The above line 'he said these homebrewed sounds were from "from the -- , from the-- , down to the-- "'
SHOULD BE
'he said these homebrewed sounds were from “from the gutbucket, from the grit, down to the earth”'
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