TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4047
Bo Diddley Album Rankings
1
Legendary guitarist, gifted songwriter, master of rhythm, snappy dresser -- Bo Diddley is all these things and more, and this two-fer CD, which reissues Diddley's first two albums on one convenient co
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2
Not every single track you'll ever want or need by the legendary shave-and-a-haircut rhythm R&B/rock pioneer, but a great place to begin.
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3
The great Lester Bangs once called Bo Diddley "The unquestionably authentic and righteous bluesbustin' dad of rock and roll." That's some praise.
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12
Twenty-two of Bo Diddley's best blues-oriented sides from the Chess catalog, including some rare stuff -- the rip-roaring 1959 outing "Run Diddley Daddy," a jive-loaded "Cops and Robbers" from 1956 t
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17
This superior 22-track album collects material originally released on Bo Diddley's British EPs.
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24
Not only does it sport one of the most striking album covers of its era (Diddley decked out in cowboy finery, about to get the drop on some unfortunate varmint with one of his fieriest guitars lying
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32
MCA Special Products' Bo Knows Bo is an odd hodgepodge of highlights from Bo Diddley's classic Chess and Checker recordings.
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