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What’s up Sorry State readers? I hope everyone has had a nice week. It’s been chilly here in Raleigh, but I’ve been staying warm listening to some classic heat here, Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger. Often when I’m at the store and need to throw something on real quick, I’ll pay a visit to the blues section cause it never disappoints. This copy is a repress on Chess with a nice laminated cover and sounds great. Clocking in just under 25 minutes, this record is short n sweet but packs a real punch in that short time. The opening track, Gunslinger, gets things going, and the train keeps on rolling through Ride On Josephine and before you know, you’re Doing The Crawdaddy. This album features all originals by Bo Diddley except for a phenomenal cover of Sixteen Tons, which sounds totally different from any other version I’ve heard, but it’s great. A certified classic, worthy of adding to anyone’s collection. If you ever find yourself in Oxford, Mississippi, there’s a bar in the downtown square that has cool ass paintings of Bo Diddley and Robert Johnson and other Mississippi legends.