MCDANIEL, ELLAS

McDANIEL, ELLAS (BO DIDDLEY). Bluesman/Rock n roll entertainer (30 December 1928 near Magnolia, Mississippi). His mother moved to McComb, Mississippi, when he was a baby; he was taken to Chicago as a child. There he began to study violin at the age of seven, and he taught himself to play guitar at thirteen. Soon thereafter he organized a blues trio that played on street corners. He first played professionally about 1947 and made his first recordings in 1955, music that...