Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger [180 gram vinyl LP]

Wax Time records release. 180 gram vinyl LP. Record store day exclusive. Bo Diddley saw a concept he could get behind with early TV's embrace of Western heroes. Later to become a deputy sheriff himself (in Valencia, New Mexico), the rock and roll architect posed in Tulsa with six-guns and guitar for the cover of BO DIDDLEY IS A GUNSLINGER (1960). While not exactly a concept album, Bo's fifth album did bend the imagy to his own uses: Gunslinger is a textbook Diddley-beat workout that imagines our man at the O.K. Corral, while Cheyenne celebrates the television hero. Those cuts blend well with the rest of the offbeat business at hand, which includes Doing The Crawdaddy, a non sequitur would-be-dance-craze tune; a convincing take on Sixteen Tons, and the double entendre Ride On Josephine. This remastered version contains four business tracks, key performances in their own right, amended to the original 10-cut set.