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Bo Diddley
Ride On: The Chess Masters 3 - 1960-1961
Genres: Blues, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
1. My White Horse (take 4)*
2. Live My Life
3. Scuttle Bug
4. Love Me
5. Walkin And Talkin (unedited)
6. Mule Train (lead vocal)*
7. Travelin West (instrumental version of Mule Train)
8. Mule Train (group vocal)*
9. Mule Train (alternate group vocal)*
10. Merengue (Limbo)*
11. Say You Will*
12. Say You Will (alternate take)*
13. Craw-Dad
14. Ride On Josephine
15. No More Lovin
16. No More Lovin (alternate take)
17. Do What I Say
18. Doing The Craw-daddy
19. Whoa, Mule (Shine)
20. Cheyenne
21. Sixteen Tons
22. Googlia Moo
23. Working Man
24. (Bo Diddleys A) Gunslinger
25. Somewhere
Track Listings (29) - Disc #2
1. Hey, Hey (What Are You Going To Do?) a/k/a Hey Pretty Baby (fast version)**
2. Hey, Hey (What Are You Going To Do?) a/k/a Hey Pretty Baby (slow version)**
3. Can You Shimmy?**
4. Im Hungry**
5. Hey Pretty Baby (slow version)*
6. Hey Pretty Baby (fast version)*
7. Oh Yeah a/k/a Oh Yes**
8. Huckleberry Bush (Hully Hully Gully)**
9. Come On Baby a/k/a The Soup Maker**
10. All Together**
11. Watusi Bounce**
12. Mess Around
13. Doodlin*
14. Bo Diddley Is An Outlaw (fast version)*
15. Bo Diddley Is An Outlaw (slow version)*
16. Aloha*
17. Funny Talk*
18. Instrumental*
19. Bring Them Back Alive (Funny Talk)*
20. When The Saints Go Marching In *
21. Shank
22. The Twister
23. Bo Diddley Is A Lover
24. Love Is A Secret
25. Bo Diddley Is Loose
26. Congo
27. Aztec
28. Call Me (Bos Blues)
29. Bos Vacation

CD Details

All Artists: Bo Diddley
Title: Ride On: The Chess Masters 3 - 1960-1961
Members Wishing: 6
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hip-O Select
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 7/21/2009
Genres: Blues, Pop, Rock
Styles: Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Oldies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 602527055305

Synopsis

Product Description

By the time of these recordings, Bo Diddley was a recording star with a string of hits and classic tracks and was living in Washington, D.C. with a fairly basic recording studio in the basement of his Rhode Island Avenue home. There, he self-produced demos, finished recordings and sent them to Chess Records in Chicago. This was, at the time, simply revolutionary; recording artists didn't own their own studios and produce their own recordings. Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and James Brown were soon to change that, but these recordings and Bo Diddley were there first. All 54 tracks on these two CDs were recorded over a 13 month period in Bo's basement studio and delivered to Chess. Many went on to be the crux of such classic Diddley LPs as In The Spotlight, Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger, and Bo Diddley Is A Lover, and included such key Bo tracks as "Ride On Josephine," "Live My Life," and the title track to Gunslinger. 17 others are previously unreleased, while many others are simply rare. Some of the recordings are demo raw, while others as polished as any Bo Diddley track. The music is also as lively and as diverse as you'd expect from Bo: rockers, novelties, instrumentals, blues, doo wop ballads et al. His band at the time is present more often than not: Jerome Green on maracas; Peggy Jones on guitar; Clifton James on drums; with a rotating piano seat including Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake and more. Like the previous two Hip-O Select collections of Bo Diddley's historic Chess recordings, this double CD comes with great period photos, in-depth liner notes and track-by-track research courtesy of George R. White, Bo's biographer and discographer.

CD Reviews

Bo: Volume Three

William Lynd | Poestenkill, NY United States | 08/02/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the third volume of Hip-O-Select's (hopefully) complete review of Bo's amazing and pioneering output from the late 50's & 60's (and maybe the 70's?). The first set was released in 2007 and is called "Bo Diddley - "I'm A Man / The Chess Masters, 1955-1958". That first volume covered every recorded track from 1955-1958. The Second Volume followed in 2008 and covered 1959 into early 1960. Both in my opinion are 5 star releases and just incredibly enjoyable to listen to.

This third volume continues the thorough review and picks up with the 1960 tracks not included in Volume 2 and continues into 1961.

The set begins begins with some fun studio chatter and launches into an unreleased track - "My White Horse". This is a good track with classic Bo sound and is a great harbinger, as this set - even more than the first two, includes many unreleased songs and unreleased versions of songs you know. Classics like "Craw-Dad", "Ride On Josephine", "No More Lovin'", "Somewhere", and the fun "Bo's Vacation" round out this generous 54 track set.

Bo's album from 1960 entitled "Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger" is thoroughly represented on this set with the finished tracks in nicely remastered sound and one or two early versions of the same tracks. 1961's "Bo Diddley Is a Lover" is also heavily represented and the tracks sound much better than any previous release and this particular CD has been a bit hard to find in the past 10 years or so, so it's great to have these songs readily available again.

There are a few tracks are on here for the hardcore fans only, but this set in general is probably for the hardcore fans. The tracks I'm referring to are many of the home demos that were done at Bo's home in D.C.

The liner notes are thorough and informative and the packaging is decent, but could be better - I'm not a big fan of digipak - the durability sure does not equal a jewel case. You may want to put the discs in hard case for travel in a car or backpack.

As with the earlier releases in this series, completeness was job#1 by the prducers, so sometimes you endure two or three versions of the same song. Sometimes it's fun to hear the growth of a song, but other times can be a bit boring hearing the same song repeatedly - sometimes for only a small change. This is a small complaint however and I'd rather have all the versions than not and it's easily rectified with a little programming of your CD player or iPod. Overall - a great set and I'm looking forward to the next volumes. The quality of the music is a notch below the first two columes, hence the 4 star rating versus 5, but still a "must-have" for any serious Bo Diddley fan.

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