By Meredith Oakley (Contact)
They call him The Originator, but Bo Diddley will always be The Gunslinger to me. That seems kind of an odd way to think of the man who put the rhythm in blues, but it was the first reference I ever heard Bo Diddley make to himself, back around 1961, and it stuck.
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Editorial, Pages 21 on 06/04/2008