Eddie Boyd
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Edward Riley Boyd known as Eddie Boyd (November 25, 1914–July 13, 1994) was a blues musician born on Stovall's Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. He 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 northward migration to the factories of Chicago in 1941. He recorded the hit song "Five Long Years" in 1951, followed by hits with "24 hours" and the Willie Dixon song "Third Degree" in 1953. Boyd toured Europe in 1965 with the American Folk Blues Festival. Tired of the racial discrimination he experienced in the United States, he first moved to Belgium, then married and settled in Finland in 1970. Boyd died in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland.
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