Eddie Boyd
Eddie Boyd (* as Edward Riley November 25, 1914 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, † July 13, 1994 in Helsinki, Finland ) was an American blues musician.
Life
Eddie Boyd was on a plantation in Coahoma County at Clarksdale (Mississippi), was born. When his date of birth and November 13th, 1914 is sometimes given.
At 15, Boyd was forced to flee because he had stabbed in dispute the plantation owner with a pitchfork. He taught himself to play the guitar at first, then switched to the piano, and earned his living as a musician in the Mississippi Delta. [Note 1] In 1936 he moved to Memphis, where he played five years with the Dixie Rhythm Boys.
In 1941, Boyd his half-brother Memphis Slim and his cousin Muddy Waters to Chicago to look for better conditions. He worked in a steel mill and played at night in the clubs with colleagues such as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines and Sonny Boy Williamson I. With the latter he made in 1945 first recordings.
In 1952, Boyd Five Long Years and 24 hours for the label JOB the first hits on the Rhythm & Blues charts; he himself had financed the recordings. 1953 was followed by the third hit Third Degree. 1957 Boyd had a serious car accident, which ties him for three months in bed. At this time, eased its popularity.
In 1965, Boyd at the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe. The success prompted him to stay in Europe. In 1968 he recorded the album 7936 South Rhodes with Fleetwood Mac. He went on tour with John Mayall and recorded with Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton.
1970 Boyd married a Finnish woman and stayed with her in Finland, where he has worked with Jukka Tolonen. Eddie Boyd took in the 1960s and 1970s, with many European blues bands LPs, known as Cuby & Blizzards (Netherlands) or unknown as Ulli's Blues Band ( Germany). In 1980 he had a heart operation. In 1986 he joined again at the Chicago Blues Festival on.
Eddie Boyd died in 1994 in Meilahti Hospital in Helsinki.