Bo Diddley
His Best
back in stock the chess records' 'his best' compilations are generally outstanding and the bo diddley installation is no exception outside of purchasing bo's key studio albums or shelling out for the comprehensive box set 'his best' is the bo diddley disc to have since it covers all of his essential hits from 'roadrunner' to 'i'm a man' to 'hey bo diddley' to 'who do you love' but the real surprise here is the quality of the remastering which brings out a real crispness and edge to the recordings and the 'longer cuts' that result from reedits to the original masters also here of course are the infectious hugely influential bo didley beat the rumbling chchinking guitar bo's neoblues wails and selfmythologizing lyrics and everything else that makes this music some of the absolute best and most important in the chapters of early rock and roll