Bo Diddley Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He is also recognized for his technical innovations, including his distinctive rectangular guitar, with its unique booming, resonant, shimmering tones. Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the South Side of Chicago, where he dropped the Otha and became Ellas McDaniel. He was an active member of Chicago's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the
She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues) The video was directed by Jim Shea and was released in October 1992. "She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)" debuted at number 42 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 24, 1992. She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues) "She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)" is a song co-written by American country music artists Alan Jackson and Randy Travis, and performed by Jackson. It was released in October 1992 as the first single from his album "A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love)".