Even the cover is a statement - a high-contrast image of Diddley looking powerful and wearing leather straps over a bare chest while playing his signature rectangular guitar and singing into a condenser mic. Once settled there he became a deputy sheriff in county Citizens’ Patrol - purchasing and donating three patrol cruisers.īut in 1970 he made his most political album, perhaps his only one. It came out four years after his last studio album The Originator, and just before Diddley moved to Los Lunas, New Mexico. ![]() Those are 1970’s The Black Gladiator and 1972’s The Way It All Began. ![]() The late blues legend played way too many gigs and didn’t make enough studio albums - two of which are among my all-time favourites for guitar tone and coolness. There is not enough love for Bo Diddley - and it’s nobody’s fault but Bo’s.
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