Have Guitar Will Travel
| Bo Diddley
Have Guitar Will Travel
Have Guitar Will Travel is the third studio album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It was released on the Checker Records label in 1960. The front cover of Diddley's album displays a white calling card similar to that which Richard Boone's 'Have Gun-Will Travel' character Paladin carried and gave out on every episode of the series. The location was Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York City- Wikipedia
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All Music
This record is every bit as raunchy as Diddley's first two albums (the guitars may even be crunchier, and the singing shows more range), and has more than enough to recommend it to collectors and fans. This is the album that began the funny cover photos on Diddley's records.
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Stuck in the Past
Another exploration of his own idiosyncratic brand of primitive, guitar-driven rock & roll. The only charting single to be taken from the album was "Say Man, Back Again."
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Clear Spot
A killer early '60s LP with dead cool cover art. This album just explodes the moment you put it on. Bo was doing funk before funk was invented!
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Sundazed
Bo Diddley came out with all guns blazing on his floor-rattling romp from 1960, Have Guitar Will Travel. The LP would become a blueprint for SO much great rock 'n' roll
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Pop Market
Have Guitar Will Travel was packed with the same badass guitar, bolder-than-bold vocals, and trademark Diddley beat that had already made Bo a stone legend and man-among-men.
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Raru
2011 Between hypnotic and rhythmic guitar lines, all of these songs showcase a young Bo Diddley at his raw and primal best, and confirm that right out of the box he didn't sound like anyone else.
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