“Watusi Rodeo” by Guadalcanal Diary

"Watusi Rodeo" kicks up dust on Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, the first full-length album from Guadalcanal Diary, a band out of Marietta, Georgia. Singer Murray Attaway wrote it with Coral Kordecki and Jeff Walls, Don Dixon produced and George Pappas engineered, and the title alone sounds like a dare thrown at the dance floor.

It keeps some heavy company. Elsewhere on the record Attaway chews over spontaneous human combustion, Civil War myth and religious fanaticism. The name also belongs to an EP: when Rhino Handmade reissued the album on CD in 2003, tracks from the Watusi Rodeo EP came along as extras.

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