Rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley, born Elias Otha Bates, began his musical journey soon after moving from Mississippi to Chicago as a young child. In Chicago, he became active in the Ebenezer Baptist ...

All the materials will only cost about $2 per instrument, James said, adding that the diddley bow was an inexpensive instrument which many black musicians used to get started in their musical careers.

The distinctive guitar rhythms he developed, which Diddley believed were influenced by the churches of his youth, are some of the most influential in the history of rock and roll. Description A violin ...

I was checking out clips of Jack White, a rock ’n’ roll messiah, and came across him building in less than 10 minutes a one-string guitar called a diddley bow out of a piece of wire, a 2×4 ...

The diddley bow is not much more complicated than an early hunting bow. Brought to America by African slaves, it often consists of little more than a long piece of wire nailed to a board. Pictures ...

By Lou Sennick, The World June 3, 2014 Alexandria Saye plays her custom built Diddley Bow, a one-string guitar, Tuesday at Sunset Intermediate School. Several fourth-graders in the school used ...

He moved with his new family to the South Side of Chicago where he acquired his Bo Diddley nickname at school. A "Diddley Bow" is a one-stringed African guitar. In his teens, he trained as a boxer ...