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Long unavailable on vinyl, this quintessential collector's edition includes Diddley's fifth album, Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, originally released by Chess' subsidiary Checker Records in December 1961. Critically observed as the rock counterpart of Sonny Rollins' Way out West (not just because of the cover art, but because of its loose adherence to a Western motif - in the John Wayne and Louis L'Amour sense), this LP is tremendously exciting. Clearly recorded with some haste, there's an immediacy and coherence about these performances lacking from most rock records of the era.
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