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Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger Radio: A Micro-Review
A great thing about having seven kids in today’s world where technology changes faster than a confused 12-year-old in California?
The kids let me know about worthwhile tech things. I don’t have to pick through the digital flotsam.
I learned a few months ago that Spotify will create a playlist from any song. I’ve been enjoying Warren Zevon’s “Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger,” so I asked Spotify to create Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger Radio.
I wasn’t disappointed. Every song was decent, some were very good.
And a few were great:
“California Blues,” Alejandro Escovedo
“Waitress in the Sky,” The Replacements
“Blue Money,” Van Morrison
“What Kinda Guy,” Steve Forbert (of “Romeo’s Tune” fame . . . for those from the 1970s)
Bo Diddley’s a Gunslinger Radio also showed me more of the Amazing Rhythm Aces. I’ve long enjoyed their “Third Rate Romance” but never knew they had other good songs. Especially recommended: “The Ella B.”
A previous version of this story first appeared in the free Saturday newsletter, Outside the Modern Limits.
