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...many black American musicians. The Turners met British rock stars, such as Eric Clapton, whose knowledge black bluesmen was thorough-far more thorough than that of most white American musicians. The Beatles and the Stones were taking their inspiration from the songs of Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry-and making no secret of it. In a matter of time, American youth got with it and began reconsidering certain lines of prejudice, such as that between Pop and Rhythm-and-Blues, or between black and white. Obscure, starving bluesmen began selling more records and playing...
...flaunt opposition to the adult world-was eager to accept the rough, driving new sound. Written originally as an M.A. thesis, The Sound of the City sometimes gives off a faint odor of scholarly stuffiness. It is startling to see early greats like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Bo Diddley referred to, in the best tradition of academic criticism, by their surnames. Saying Domino without Fats or Diddley without Bo just seems wrong, somehow...
...crazy, just a total music fanatic. I wanted to see all those places with those fantastic names. Chattanooga, Tenn.?wow! Shreveport, Lu-zee-ana ?wow! I just couldn't wait to drive down that road, you know. All that good music came from there?Robert Johnson, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Junior Parker?and they kept talking about those places in their music...
...boys chose the name for their group tells much about them. Lead Singer John Fogerty, who writes most of their material, got his musical inspiration from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley records. He learned chords from a Burl Ives songbook. Doug Clifford didn't even know how to play drums when John invited him to join. He converted a pair of old pool cues into drumsticks on a school lathe, bought a snare drum and began practicing. That was a decade ago, when they were 13 and schoolboys in suburban El Cerrito, Calif. With Stu Cook on piano...
...beautiful slide guitar and sings with a clearness and urgency that can hardly be matched. Shaky Walter along with Sunnyland Slim, and Willie Dixon (who wrote such classic songs as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "I Just Want To Make Love To You") and Clifton James (who backs Bo Diddley on his recordings with Chess Records) complements Johnny Shines with an understated and beautiful mellow harp that places him in the same category as the late, great blues harpists, Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter...