Bo Diddley Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Bo Diddley: Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Bo Diddley's syncopated 'hambone beat -bump, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp- has become a cornerstone of rock & roll. He surprised the music world in the mid-1950s when he unleashed a new guitar sound dominated by heavy rhythmic drive and distortion, which was quickly absorbed by other players. 'Unarguably one of the most influential musicians in rock & roll,' noted Doug Pullen in Music Hound Rock, 'Diddley's distinctive 'chunka, chunka' rhythm guitar riff is the stuff of which rock's bedrock was made.' Keith Richards once declared that, 'Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry were close to the straight electric blues. But Bo Diddley was fascinatingly on the edge. There was something African going on in there. His style was outrageous. suggesting that the kind of music we loved didn't just come from Mississippi. It was coming from somewhere else.' This sound formed the core of several hits, including 'Who Do You Love?,' 'Bo Diddley,' and 'Bo's a Lumber Jack,' among others. Dave Marsh wrote in the New Rolling Stone Record Guide, By Diddley was one of the great fathers of rock & roll, ranking with such transitional blues artists as Fats Domino and Chuck Berry in both importance and influence.'
Diddley's guitar style was unusual and innovative and his incorporation of tremolo, reverb. and distortion was highly influential. He called his syncopated groove a 'freight train sound: while others described it as a 'shave-and-a-haircut rhythm.' The beat had been around for centuries, most notably in West African drumming, but Diddley mastered it and augmented it for the rock & roll era. Rhythm is so important in By Diddley's music that harmony is often reduced to a bare simplicity. His songs (for example, Who Do You Love?') often have no chord changes: the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that excitement is created by the rhythm, rather than by harmonic tension and release.
This remastered collector's item includes one of the lesser-kric,, LPs By Diddley recorded for Chess' subsidiary. Checker Record:- Road Runner Most of the material here was rushed out in half finished form, in order to get an album out that cashed in on the Twist' craze of early 1962. This album has also appeared, with different cover art, as Bo Diddley Is a Twister. There may well have been words intended for the opening track, 'Detour', which came out of the 1961 session featuring Peggy 'Lady Bo' Jones that also produced the excellent 'Pills' and the rather perfunctory reading of Willie Dixon's 'My Babe'. In addition, the record contains some lackluster earlier instrumental material, such as 'Shank' and The Twister (both recorded in late 1960 at By Diddley's home studio, in Washington, D.C.). It also includes a smoking reading of 'Here 'Tis', the soulful Bo Diddley original that would serve a young Eric Clapton -during The Yardbirds' era- in very good stead on stage (Diddley's version is far superior to Clapton's), as well as the classics 'Road Runner', 'Hey!, Bo Diddley' and 'Who Do You Love?'. Between hypnotic and rhythmic guitar lines and swaggering vocals, these songs capture a young Bo Diddley at his raw and primal best, while confirming that even at the onset of his career he didn't sound like anyone else in rock & roll. In addition to the original masterpiece, this Vinyl Lovers remastered reissue contains 2 bonus tracks from the same period.
'He played really simple things but with incredible authority' Iggy Pop
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Article properties:Bo Diddley: Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Interpret: Bo Diddley
Album titlle: Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Label VINYL LOVERS
Genre Rock
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 8436544170688
- weight in Kg 0.3
Diddley, Bo - Road Runner (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1 | ||||
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01 | Detour | Bo Diddley | ||
02 | She's Alright | Bo Diddley | ||
03 | Doin' The Jaguar | Bo Diddley | ||
04 | Who Do You Love | Bo Diddley | ||
05 | Shank | Bo Diddley | ||
06 | Road Runner | Bo Diddley | ||
07 | My Babe | Bo Diddley | ||
08 | Oh Yeah (aka Oh Yes) | Bo Diddley | ||
09 | The Twister | Bo Diddley | ||
10 | Hey, Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | ||
11 | Hush Your Mouth | Bo Diddley | ||
12 | Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | ||
13 | I'm Looking For A Woman | Bo Diddley | ||
14 | Here 'Tis | Bo Diddley | ||
15 | I Know | Bo Diddley | ||
16 | All Together | Bo Diddley |
Bo Diddley
He may not have invented the shave-and-a-haircut rhythm synonymous with his name. But Bo Diddley and his beat were a primary factor in the development of rock 'n' roll. Bo’s seminal recordings for Chicago’s Checker Records came rooted in blues and slathered in savage tremolo-enriched guitar, reverberating with a tribal thunder harking back to African tradition.
"I had no influences when I first started," claimed the late Diddley. "I didn’t have nobody to copy after, because I couldn’t play blues, and I could not play like Muddy Waters. I wanted to, but I just couldn’t. I was cut out to be what I am."
He was born Ellas Bates on December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. "Chicago is like home to me," he said. "I don’t know too much about Mississippi." Young Ellas was reared by his mother’s first cousin Gussie McDaniel, accounting for his commonly cited surname. In 1934, they headed for Chicago’s South Side. When he was 12, his sister bought him a guitar for Christmas, and his future was assured.
Ellas formed his first band, the Hipsters, in 1946. "I used to play on the street corners," he said. "We had a washtub and a guitar, and I was the dude with the guitar. I had a fellow named Roosevelt Jackson that played the washtub." They soon added guitarist Jody Williams. "We all kind of grew up together," said Bo. "I was a little bit older than all the rest of ‘em." Harpist Billy Boy Arnold joined the group in 1951. "I met Bo Diddley when I was 15 years old," says Arnold. "We were playing together on the street corners." Maracas shaker Jerome Green came in along the way. In early 1955, the guitarist worked up two songs to serve as a demo. "Bo had a home recorder, and we made a little dub," says Arnold. "We wound up at Chess, and Chess was where it happened."
"I just walked in there one day, man, and just asked ‘em if they was makin’ records," said Bo. "They told me, ‘Yeah, what did I want?’ I said I wanted to make a record. So they made one on me." Phil Chess was so impressed that he asked Bo back the next day to audition for brother Leonard. "He had this particular style of his own," said the late Willie Dixon. "A new style was a great thing. We was often wondering whether it would go over or not. But he had that thing ‘I’m A Man.’"
"About three or four days later," says Arnold, "we were in Universal Studios recording the smash hit ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘I’m A Man.’" That was on March 2, 1955. Bo, Billy Boy, and Jerome were joined by drummer Clifton James and bassist Dixon. Bo had reworked his ribald Uncle John into Bo Diddley, which would prove an R&B chart-topper. The swaggering blues flip I’m A Man was a hit in its own right.
"Muddy was the basic foundation for that song," Bo admitted. "It was actually saying something back, you dig?"
"We thought the record was going to come out as Ellas McDaniel & the Hipsters, ‘cause that was our name," says Arnold. "When the record came out two weeks later, I was surprised. It was ‘Bo Diddley’ by Bo Diddley." It’s a safe bet that Bo’s dangerous Africanized beat would have never passed muster with a major label, at least in the pure, raw form it appears in here; it took visionaries like the Chess brothers to recognize his genius. Muddy took immediate notice, cooking up Manish Boy and enjoying his own Chess hit. "Bo Diddley, he was tracking me down with my beat when he made ‘I’m A Man.’ That’s from ‘Hoochie Coochie Man.’ Then I got on it with ‘Manish Boy’ and just drove him out of my way," said Muddy. With Eric Clapton on guitar, The Yardbirds cut a driving ‘64 version.
Though Billy Boy claims Diddley’s stage moniker stemmed from a comic they saw at the Indiana Theater, Bo explained its murky origins this way: "Ellas McDaniel is not commercial. But somebody named Bo Diddley—everybody says, ‘What? Who in the heck would be named that?’ But the kids named me that when I was going to grammar school here. Don’t ask me what it means, ‘cause I don’t know!"
Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois
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