Artful Dodger: Artful Dodger
Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, December 1975
PLAYING straight uncomplicated hard rock, without a unified theme or specific image, without fantastic flights of lyrical invention or instrumental improvisation, and without pandering to the basest boogie instincts, bands like Artful Dodger thrust into an uncomfortable limbo.
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