First I found the photo. The black and white image was labeled simply, "Moses Williams playing the diddley bow: Waverly, Florida." What in the world is a diddley bow? And then I found a recording of ...

The name Bo Diddley — who grew up as Ellas Bates — is familiar to many, but how many have heard of the "diddley bow?" The innovative rhythm and blues guitarist, who was born to Ethel Wilson and Eugene ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The experimental duo known as Walnut Brain is part of a Philadelphia music scene so ...

COOS BAY — A group of Coos Bay fourth-graders are ending the school year on a good note. On Tuesday, Nick Krissie’s class of nine students at Sunset Middle School put the finishing touches on their ...

Got myself a diddley bow today. And a small Marshall amplifier. Also a burgundy guitar pick, a glass finger slide, and a new record by Seasick Steve. Pretty sweet, huh? I can’t actually play an ...

The blues icon died Monday at 79, but his signature sound marches on. The "Bo Diddley beat" powers acts from the Rolling Stones to the White Stripes. Musicologist Ned Sublette celebrates Diddley's ...

Mark Dow makes diddley bows in his shop in Hill. The one stringed wonder is usually found in southern blues and jug bands. They also have a dedicated following here in New Hampshire. Musician TJ ...

Mark Dow makes diddley bows in his shop in Hill. The one stringed wonder is usually found in southern blues and jug bands. They also have a dedicated following here in New Hampshire. Musician TJ ...

It is with tremendous sadness that MusicRadar reports the passing of rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, who succumbed to heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. The larger-than-life singer and ...

Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ...

VIDEO: The influential musician helped the blues evolve into rock 'n' roll Bo Diddley, the Mississippi-born musician credited with helping the blues evolve into rock ‘n’ roll, died of heart failure at ...