Bohemian Bo Diddley

In 1959, when I was thirteen, I stole an LP containing the Hambone sounds of Bo Diddley. Like most white kids of my generation, I loved the music of Elvis Presley because he had SOUL. Once you heard soul, then you owned the Touchstone to all music. When I first heard, and saw Bo on T.V. I heard more then a man with soul, I heard a Charismic, a Prophet, with a rhythm that was our driving national anthem. Hambo Bo, the Black Bohemian Hobo, had hopped the Great American Mojo locomotive, and done drove it off the track! And now it was coming your way, a thunder of million hearts beating fast….The All Inclusive Flight From Egypt!

Get on board lil children – and shake your hips! Here was Moses with his homemade axe. Behind him are his Nazarites whom he invited to cross the line after the Lord…