Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd (November 25, 1914 –
July 13, 1994) was an American blues piano player, born on Stovall's Plantation
near Clarksdale , Mississippi
Boyd moved to the Beale Street
district of Memphis, Tennessee in
1936 where he played piano and guitar with his group, the Dixie Rhythm Boys.
Boyd followed the great migration northward to the factories of Chicago ,
Illinois
Five Long Years is
a song written and recorded by blues vocalist/pianist Eddie Boyd in 1952. It
reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart.
Five Long Years tells
of "the history of the metal worker who, for five years, worked hard in a
factory and who gave his check every Friday night to his girlfriend, who nevertheless
dumped him."
Eddie Boyd v, p / Ernest Cotton ts / L. C. McKinley g /
Alfred Elkins b / Percy Walker d.
Recorded in Chicago
at Modern Recording Studio in May or June of 1952.
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