Eddie Boyd - 7936 South Rhodes. CD. (B.G.O. Records - BGOCD195) Was it the name of the street he lived in or the piano he played? I guess we'll never know. . .Legendary album from 1968 where the 100 percent real deal, plantation-born US piano pounder (and creator of the sound of a dozen of the finest blues 'n' soul records) got together with three young chaps called Green, McVie and Fleetwood- in other words, the original Fleetwood Mac, for Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label. Hard to find until this reissue hit the streets!!

Eddie Boyd - Eddie Boyd & His Blues Band. CD. (Gott Records - GOTTCD008) This 1967 album was the product of Chigago-based Eddie Boyd's travels to Europe where he happened upon the "Blues Boom" that was in full flight at the time. An absolute gem that features contributions from the likes of John Mayall, Peter Green and Aynsley Dunbar. A definitive example of collaboration between the old and new schools of Blues.

Eddie Boyd - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions. CD. (Blue Horizon - 82876769682) Born in Mississippi in 1914, the Blues pianist Eddie Boyd grew up surrounded by musical influencesduring his early childhood days, including his ownfather who was a blues guitarist and his school friend McKinley Morganfield, a.k.a ‘Muddy Waters’ whowould later record a cover version of one of Eddie’s songs ! Eddie experimented with various instruments during his early teens, influenced notably by Roosevelt Sykes and Leroy Carr, he eventually found the keys of the piano to be where his talents really shone.This collection includes 18 re-mastered tracks from histime with the label, including two which werepreviously unreleased.

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