Possibly related to Memphis Slim and Muddy Waters, Eddie Boyd played the piano
in Mississippi juke joints from an early age, leaving them after a racial
incident in the '30s. He performed in Memphis, then moved to Chicago, where he
scored a huge hit with one of his own compositions, Five Long Years. He signed
with the Chess label, for whom he recorded a dark, introverted work, with titles
such as "24 Hours" and "Third Degree". Very popular in the Chicago ghettos, Boyd
decided to leave the United States and the prevailing racism to settle in
England and then Finland, where he reco...