Bo Diddley News

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:23 a.m. Bo Diddley's hand-written lyrics for "Hey, Bo Diddley," his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award and everything from guitars and straps to even a leather cowboy hat with a New Mexico sheriff's badge on it, is being made available in an auction ...

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:05 p.m. Sharon McGinley and her narrative paintings have been missing from the Downtown Festival & Art Show for 12 years.

Last night at the House of Blues, when he sang "My Generation," he reworked it as a slow blues song, the back end of Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man." But he stopped short of the killer line, "Hope I die before I get old." Hey, you can only deal with so much irony.

Michael Ballard is too young to remember the Mission Mountain Wood Band's heyday in the 1970s, when five buddies from the University of Montana became the biggest band to ever emerge from the state.

The Dirty Dozen George Thorogood & The Destroyers Capitol/EMI Any musician who names his band The Destroyers and was inspired by, among others, Elmore James, Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf has got to be loved by anyone who owns a bike.

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Midnight Flyer is a weekly, two hour program featuring a wide variety of blues, interviews, biographies and stories about the blues.

I'm HUGE British Invasion fan and The Animals , featuring Eric Burdon's dark powerful voice, was among the five best bands of the era.

Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning has announced the selection of the late recording artist Bo Diddley for induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

" Opus 19 Music, LLC, an AECG company, will exclusively represent ARC Music, the iconic music publisher of some of the best known and revered blues and rock songs of the past fifty years, it was announced today by Alan Ett, CEO of AECG.

More and more, Aftermath uses ACL more than SXSW to see which recent buzz bands are worth their salt, and of course to check on how some old favorites are doing.

Sometimes Rocks Off gets distracted and forgets stuff, but better late than never.

The Gaslight Anthem / Murder By Death now on tour --- win Terminal 5 tickets, colored vinyl, a t-shirt The Gaslight Anthem @ Sasquatach 2009 "[ Murder by Death ] is great, and they were so different from the other bands on the bill, it really stood out as a fresh performance.

Eric Burdon is one of the best of the blues-inflected British Invasion singers, and he can still crank it out on occasion.

American singer and songwriter who produced some of the most distinctive and influential work in rock music.

Chinese fans embrace blues master who, like the Great Wall, has stood the test of time.

If you're feeling blue, Dr. Burma will bring a prescription of blues, funk and soul to the Jackson Gore Outdoor Music Series at 6 p.m. Friday.

After Hollywood's huge success with "Dreamgirls," the thinly fictionalized story of legendary soul/R&B label Motown, along comes "Cadillac Records." This musical biopic goes one step further back in the history of black American music, and comes up with a thinly fictionalized look at legendary blues label Chess Records.

Calvin Harris a ' Ready for the Weekend The adoration of the Bebo generation seems to have gone to this usually self-deprecating singer's head.

DESPITE George Thorogood's crotchety hold on the past, the 58-year-old blues rocker and his Destroyers earn their "world's best bar band" title with this driving record that flips from rock 'n' roll to blues to boogie.