Alexis Korner: Kornering The Market
Keith Altham, NME, 15 July 1972
ALEXIS KORNER has been for so long at the heart of rhythm and blues in Britain, and touched off so many groups who have gone on to other things, that the title 'Father of the White Blues' is not nearly enough.
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