Time: 72:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Blues, Rock, R&B
Art: Front
01. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (2:47)
02. Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing (2:51)
03. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love (2:31)
04. Bo Diddley - Down Home Special (3:14)
05. Bo Diddley - Mona (2:23)
06. Bo Diddley - Dearest Darling (2:51)
07. Bo Diddley - You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)(2:56)
08. Bo Diddley - Run Diddley Daddy (2:41)
09. Bo Diddley - I Love You So (2:24)
10. Bo Diddley - Dancing Girl (2:23)
11. Bo Diddley - Story Of Bo Diddley (2:53)
12. Bo Diddley - Deed And Deed I Do (2:23)
13. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is Loose (3:01)
14. Bo Diddley - You All Green (3:05)
15. Little Walter - Roller Coaster (2:57)
16. The Schoolboys - Pearl (2:09)
17. Marquees - Wyatt Earp (2:25)
18. Marquees - Hey Little School Girl (2:21)
19. Billy Stewart - Baby You're My Only One (2:42)
20. Billy Stewart - Billy's Heartache (2:16)
21. Mickey & Sylvia - Dearest (2:57)
22. Don Stacey - Say Man (2:28)
23. Johnny Otis Show - The New Bo Diddley (2:24)
24. J.M. Van Eaton - Bo Diddley (2:18)
25. Bill Black's Combo - Hey Bo Diddley (2:08)
26. Johnny Kidd - I Can Tell (2:32)
27. Dale And Grace - Love Is Strange (2:22)
28. Freddy Koenig - Road Runner (2:05)
Seemingly in vogue is the artist Bo Diddley given the number of reissues and compilations appearing from other record labels at present. The focus on this pioneering musician comes from the stable of Koko Mojo who bring fresh life to their “Songwriter Series” with a profile of Bo Diddley and those musicians of the same time capsule who covered his songs. By taking a journey on the “Down Home Special”, the ‘Koko Mojo Songwriter Series: Bo Diddley’ collection looks first at Bo Diddley’s tracks from Chess Records’ subsidiary label Checker Records, beginning with self-titled ‘Bo Diddley’ in 1953 and concluding with ‘You All Green’ in 1963. Fourteen tracks, therefore, from Bo Diddley himself, including excellent and established tracks ‘Who Do You Love’, ‘Mona’, and ‘Pretty Thing’ for example. Other highlights can be heard in imaginative ‘Down Home Special’ complete with train effects and whistle, to gradual hypnotic rhythm of ‘You Don’t Love Me (You Don’t Care)
’, which sounds like it’s trying to persuade the other half of this former partnership into a rethink given the already mentioned hypnotic flavour. A terrific track and ditto the rest of the “Bo Diddley” contents such as the tale told during ‘Story Of Bo Diddley’, and then slightly different approach with its added “pop” edges of ‘Deed And Deed I Do’. Rather than this compilation being a straightforward appreciation of Bo Diddley, what transpires next is a selection of artists with their takes on various Bo Diddley compositions. Offering examples from the vocal harmonies of The Marquees with two songs, ‘Wyatt Earp’ and ‘Hey Little School Girl’, to fellow Checker associate Little Walter and His Jukes with instrumental ‘Roller Coaster’. With Bill Black’s Combo chipping in with a version of ‘Hey Bo Diddley’, and later the UK’s Johnny Kid and The Pirates providing their interpretation of ‘I Can Tell’, the music of Bo Diddley was certainly appreciated by a considerable number of musicians as the album, ‘Koko Mojo Songwriter Series: Bo Diddley’ effectively demonstrates.
’, which sounds like it’s trying to persuade the other half of this former partnership into a rethink given the already mentioned hypnotic flavour. A terrific track and ditto the rest of the “Bo Diddley” contents such as the tale told during ‘Story Of Bo Diddley’, and then slightly different approach with its added “pop” edges of ‘Deed And Deed I Do’. Rather than this compilation being a straightforward appreciation of Bo Diddley, what transpires next is a selection of artists with their takes on various Bo Diddley compositions. Offering examples from the vocal harmonies of The Marquees with two songs, ‘Wyatt Earp’ and ‘Hey Little School Girl’, to fellow Checker associate Little Walter and His Jukes with instrumental ‘Roller Coaster’. With Bill Black’s Combo chipping in with a version of ‘Hey Bo Diddley’, and later the UK’s Johnny Kid and The Pirates providing their interpretation of ‘I Can Tell’, the music of Bo Diddley was certainly appreciated by a considerable number of musicians as the album, ‘Koko Mojo Songwriter Series: Bo Diddley’ effectively demonstrates.
Bo Diddley: Down Home Special (KMCD155)
