Beat The (African) Drums For Osibisa
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 22 August 1970
IT MAY BE that, having endured the painfully stilted and emotionally lukewarm playing of most rock drummers for the last decade, audiences are waking up to the fact that there is something warmer in the wind.
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