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Eddie Boyd (1914-1994)

A Piano Player from the Delta

Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd (November 25, 1914–July 13, 1994) was a blues piano player born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Muddy Waters also lived. He moved to the Beale Street district of Memphis, Tennessee in 1936 where he played piano and guitar with his group, the Dixie Rhythm Boys. Eddie Boyd followed the great migration northward to the factories of Chicago in 1941. He wrote and recorded the hit songs Five Long Years (1952), 24 Hours (1953), and the Third Degree (co-written by Willie Dixon, also 1953). Eddie Boyd toured Europe with Buddy Guy's band in 1965 as part of the American Folk Blues Festival. He later toured and recorded with Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. Tired of the racial discrimination he experienced in the United States, he first moved to Belgium, then married and settled in Finland in 1970. Eddie Boyd died in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland. (quoted from wikipedia.org)

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