The Indispensable 1959-1962 Vol. 2

Bo Diddley was probably the most original R’n’B musician in the years 1950-1960. Not only a remarkable singer and prolific composer of great influence, Bo Diddley was also an often very funny showman and a revolutionary rhythm guitarist of innovating style and technique. He was a visionary who was difficult to categorize, the spiritual father of a host of artists – soul, rap, blues, funk, rock `n’ roll, even punk rock – who recognized his unbridled genius. With the same painstaking attention to detail which made his first anthology such a success, Bruno Blum here covers the second part of the golden age of Bo Diddley, a monument in 20th century popular music. Patrick FREMEAUX