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
Blues & Rhythm and Soul music. Blues & Rhythm is run by an editorial board, since its inception it has carried on the long tradition of research into Blues, R&B and Gospel music including artists, musicians, record companies and associated subjects. "Blues & Rhythm"′s roots go back to magazines such as the pioneering "Blues Unlimited", first published in England in the early 1960s as well as other specialist magazines including "Pickin' The Blues", "Sailors Delight" and "Old Time Music". "Blues & Rhythm" has published major and ground-breaking research on some of the giants of the blues including Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Big Bill