Ben Sidran: The Doctor Is In (Arista)
Fred Dellar, NME, 19 November 1977
IN SOME ways Sidran is an anachronism. Though he's got something of a rock pedigree after paying his dues as side man with Steve Miller, he pans out as a reincarnation of one of those ultra-hip pianist-vocalists who once proliferated at many Stateside nighteries during the end of the big-band era.
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