Boyd, Eddie
(1914–1994)> PIANIST · SINGER
Boyd, Eddie November 25, 1914; Stovall (Coahoma County), MS – July 13, 1994; Helsinki, Finland Edward Riley Boyd was a pianist and singer who recorded more than one hundred tunes for multiple U.S. labels between 1947 and 1965, and subsequently recorded ten or so albums for European labels, but is best known for three brooding blues hits from the early 1950s: “ Third Degree ,” “ 24 Hours ,” and especially “ Five Long Years .” He spent the first third of his life in the Mississippi Delta and…