Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man by Guadalcanal Diary

Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, the first full-length album from Marietta, Georgia's Guadalcanal Diary, came out on Elektra with Don Dixon producing, and it's jangle-pop with dirt under its fingernails. The band had already put out the Watusi Rodeo EP, and the title song of that record shows up here, a gleefully weird cowpoke stomp.

Dixon keeps the sound clean and bright without sanding off the band's rough edges, and the guitars ring and clatter like a college-town party spilling out onto the porch. In 2003 Rhino Handmade reissued it on CD with the Watusi Rodeo tracks, a B-side cover of "Johnny B. Goode" and the previously unreleased "Just an Excuse". Jamboree came next.

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