![]() "Some of us didn't have the down payment on a Popsicle." ![]() ![]() "We went up and down the highways at night, riding in raggedy buses, and the promoters went away with the money," said Bo Diddley, who was among those honored with Mr. The organization provides cash and medical care and pays other expenses for performers of the 1930's to the 1970's, in the genres that were variously called race music, rhythm-and-blues and soul. Watson was honored at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles with a Pioneer Award of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Only two months ago, his career resurgent, Mr. He suffered a heart attack, said Al Bell, owner of Bellmark Records, his most recent label. Johnny (Guitar) Watson, a flamboyant pioneer of rhythm and blues whose music influenced performers like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Stevie Ray Vaughan, died on Friday just after he took the stage for a performance in Yokohama, Japan.
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