His Best (CD)

A self-proclaimed man among men (and deservedly so), singer/guitarist Bo Diddley is still the only musician in history to have a beat named after him. Diddley's raunchy, distorted 1950s sound and African-derived rhythm have been an enormous influence on pop and rock, from contemporaries like Buddy Holly (whose classic "Not Fade Away" is a de-facto Bo Diddley song) to blues wiseguy George Thorogood, whose remake of Bo's "Bad to the Bone" is being heard somewhere in a movie or a TV commercial even as you read this. Diddley lived and rocked into the 21st century before dying of heart failure in 2008.

• Category:  Music  »  Oldies  »  Rock 'N' Roll
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 8, 1997
• Label: Chess (USA)
• UPC: 076732937327
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106712717
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #7432 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #94 in Oldies (See Top 100 Oldies Bestsellers)
• #7 in Rock 'N' Roll (See Top 100 Rock 'N' Roll Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar, violin); Jerome Green (vocals, maracas); Peggy Jones (guitar, background vocals); Jody Williams, Ricky Jolivet (guitar); Edward Drennon (electric violin); Billy Boy Arnold, Little Walter, Lester Davenport (harmonica); Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano);

Willie Dixon, James Bradford, Jesse James Johnson, Chester Lindsey (bass);

Frank Kirkland, Clifton James, Billy Downing, Edell Robertson (drums); Cornelia Redmond (tambourine); The Bo-ettes (aka The Cookies), Bobby Baskerville, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, The Carnations (background vocals).

Producers: Leonard Chess, Phil Chess, Bo Diddley.

Compilation producer: Andy McKaie.

Includes liner notes by Don Snowden.

Digitally remastered by Erick Labson, MCA Music Media Studios, North Hollywood, California.

This is part of Chess Records' 50th Anniversary series.

The Chess Records' "His Best" compilations are generally outstanding, and the Bo Diddley installation is no exception. Outside of purchasing Bo's key studio albums, or shelling out for the comprehensive box set, HIS BEST is the Bo Diddley disc to have, since it covers all of his essential hits, from "Roadrunner" to "I'm a Man" to "Hey! Bo Diddley" to "Who Do You Love?"

But the real surprise here is the quality of the remastering, which brings out a real crispness and edge to the recordings, and the "longer cuts" that result from re-edits to the original masters. Also here, of course, are the infectious, hugely influential Bo Didley beat, the rumbling, ch-chinking guitar, Bo's neo-blues wails and self-mythologizing lyrics, and everything else that makes this music some of the absolute best and most important in the chapters of early rock & roll.

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