Various Artists - More Boss Black Rockers 3: All Shook Up (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The focus is upon Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel who is better known as Bo Diddley. Down Home Special looks at the impact of his recordings, his song writing and production skills. Diddley's recordings were infused with waves of tremolo guitar, and African beats albeit with a blues sound. The Inchdiddley beatInch is essentially the clave rhythm, one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions, with a Inch bom, bom, bom, bom, bom...Inch back-beat. The synoptic 5/4 rhythm pattern approach can be heard throughout his recordings and the pattern became synonymous with his style. The musical exploration takes in the years 1955 through to 1963. Bo Diddley is featured with a cross sample of his career and we use songs he composed which were issued as singles or album tracks. The throbbing rhythm & blues recordings include; his classic Bo Diddley, Who Do You Love?, Dearest Darling, Run Diddley Daddy, the autobiographical Story Of Bo Diddley, and many more. Diddley is the guitarist supporting Little Walter and His Jukes for Roller Coaster, and the album delves into his orchestration and musician skills for Billy Stewart, The Schoolboys, and The Marquees who have in their line-up future soul music sensations Marvin Gaye. The oddments are Mickey and Sylvia, Dearest, which Diddley never recorded and Love Is Strange, a song credited to Ethel Smith, but written by Bo Diddley, which is performed by Dale and Grace Of the rest; Don Stacey covers Say Man, The Johnny Otis Show work up The New Bo Diddley, two legends from Memphis J.M. Van Eaton, and Bill Black add instrumental flair with Bo Diddley and Hey Bo Diddley respectively, and English rockers Johnny Kidd and The Pirates performs I Can Tell. Freddy Koenig with The Jades close the twenty-song album with Road Runner. The group resided in a German-settled area of Texas which explains the Bavarian instrume

Vinyl LP pressing. Issued under the rightful title, More Boss Black Rockers, The Mojo Man was charged with the (enviable) task of bringing these albums to life. To achieve such an outcome, More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 3 All Shook Up continues it's exploration of Black African American rock 'n' roll by mining deep into the heart of a traditional rhythm and blues scene of 50's America that eventually became rock 'n' roll, where you will hear established artists rubbing shoulders with the obscure. This is merely one segment of the attraction because the sounds blaring from the adjacent speakers is often wild in nature, raw and dangerous, just as it is scintillating, not to mention unhinged rock 'n' roll. Let's face it, it's the kinds of sounds that no doubt left many a jaw gaping as rock 'n' roll was ushered into the world for the very first time upon an innocent public, before evolving into the next big thing and continuing to resonate in the present with an equally feisty presence. Quick, word on the street it's that 50's rock 'n' roll! Perusing the lengthy list of rock 'n' roll contenders from the setlist of More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 3 All Shook Up, any attempt to arrive at a favourite makes for an impossible task because, quite simply, there's not a dud in the house. There's diversity aplenty with this latest platter that swings from R&B to rock 'n' roll and a streetcorner stop for some doo-wop. Rock 'n' roll greatness leaps from antiquated wax of opener Art Neville's 'Zing Zing', Jimmy Breedlove 'That's My Baby', to enthralling 'Crazy Crazy Feelin' from equally captivating Esquerita. There's plenty to enthuse over when it comes to rockin' Artie Wilson and 'That's My Baby', and ditto Googie Rene with the inventive and dark edges attached to wonderful 'Big Foot'. Glorious vocals can be heard during Ruth Brown 'Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean', before arriving a

Album Tracks 1. Chicken Little 2. Pretty Little Baby 3. Smack Smack 4. Linda Baby 5. Teenage Sister 6. Who's in the Shack 7. It Ain't No Secret (What a Baby Can Do) 8. Trouble Up the Road 9. Shake Em Up Baby 10. Lone Ranger Gonna Git Married 11. You Know I Love You 12. What's the Matter for You 13. Rock and Roll Baby 14. Juke Box Boggie Boogie Chick 15. Good Good 16. Hey Now 17. Humdinger 18. Rock 'N' Roll Call 19. Twistin All Night Long 20. She's a Flirt 21. Woke Up This Morniing 22. Mirror Mirror on the Wall 23. All Around the World 24. Love You, Pretty Baby 25. What'cha Gonna Do About Me 26. Miss Petunia 27. Sick and Tired 28. Rooster