Bo Diddley - Rock N Roll Latitude 11 on CD

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In the 1950s, as a founder of rock ´n´ roll, Mr. Diddley - along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others - helped to reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building on the templates of blues, Southern gospel, R&B and postwar black American vernacular culture. His original style of rhythm and blues influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat - three strokes/rest/two strokes - became a stock rhythm of rock ´n´ roll. Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like Bo Diddley,"" ""Who Do You Love,"" ""Mona,"" ""Crackin´ Up,"" ""Say, Man,"" ""Ride On Josephine"" and ""Road Runner,"" his booming voice was loaded up with echo and his guitar work came with distortion and a novel bubbling tremolo. The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother wit and sexual cockiness.