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06/06/2008

Bo Diddley - influence on Dylan?

Thanks to Martin Cowan:

“Turning to the estimable Michael Gray's Song and Dance Man III, I find the following: ‘George White's 1995 book, "Bo Diddley: Living Legend" claims that the debt of Dylan's "Obviously 5 Believers" is to a 1956 Diddley track, "She's Fine, She's Mine", and you could make a case that the Dylan arrangement owes something to the shuffle beat, maracas and harmonica set-up Diddley creates’.

“Is the Mona of "Stuck Inside of Mobile...." a relative of Diddley's Mona?

“And as one of the original electric blues voices along with Muddy and Howlin' Wolf, he's bound to have had an influence on Dylan.”

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