Bo Diddley - Where It All Began '1971

Tracks list

Johnny Otis and Pete Welding produced this surprisingly successful soul effort
by Bo, which succeeded in reshaping his sound, not as a Sly Stewart wannabe or a
lounge act covering Creedence Clearwater Revival hits. Bo at least sounds
comfortable and natural doing songs like Look At Grandma and Woman, and the
latter is a pretty damn good song -- Bo finally emerged as a soul singer in his
own right, and it worked, artistically at least. Hey Jerome even recalls tracks
like Say Man in a not-unflattering light. Unfortunately, none of this mattered
to the people who still cared about Bo Diddley -- they wanted the beat and the
old sound, which was present here on Ive Had It Hard, and the extraordinary Bo
Diddley-itis, but not in the kind of quantity they craved. He gave them his
classics in concert, but not on this album. And it all came so late in the day:
not only in terms of Bos identification as anything but an oldies act , but as
part of the history of Chess Records (now subsumed into the GRT corporate
operation, the Chess imprint having no meaning or significance), that Where It
All Began vanished from sight, leaving scarcely a trace or a ripple on the
charts.

Tracklist:
 01. Bo Diddley - Ive Had It Hard (03:25)
 02. Bo Diddley - Woman (03:10)
 03. Bo Diddley - Look At Grandma (03:35)
 04. Bo Diddley - A Good Thing (02:40)
 05. Bo Diddley - Bad Trip (05:55)
 06. Bo Diddley - Hey, Jerome (03:11)
 07. Bo Diddley - Infatuation (03:46)
 08. Bo Diddley - Take It All Off (03:24)
 09. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley-itis (05:42)

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