| | Bo Diddley Gold CD Bo Diddley Discography of CDs
Released four months after Bo's death -- and roughly a year and a half after Universal's single-disc The Definitive Collection -- the double-disc Gold is a thorough 41-track overview of Diddley's classic Chess recordings, containing all the usual suspects and filling out the margins with some of Bo's bluesier material. This emphasis on blues gives Gold a different spin than Chess UK's 2006 set The Story of Bo Diddley, which was a full 13 tracks longer than this 2008 comp and gave a lot of space to Bo's weirder work, like when he called out Khrushchev, or when he opened up to funkier grooves. Given a choice, The Story is a preferable pick to Gold as it gives a fuller portrait of Bo, but that doesn't mean that Gold is a bad compilation -- far from it, actually, as its 41 tracks are all first-rate, indicating the consistency of Diddley's catalog even if it doesn't quite hint at his range. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Gold Music | List Price | $19.95 (You save $4.86) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Oldies CDs, Rock, Blues | | Label | Geffen | | Orig Year | 2008 | | All Time Sales Rank |  122798  | | CD Universe Part number | 7767048 | | Catalog number | 001178102 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Oct 28, 2008 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Andy McKaie (Compilation) | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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