Betty Davis: Nasty Gal
Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1975
ON HER FIRST two albums, Betty Davis staked out a peculiar brand of kinky, tongue-in-cheek funk that garnered her a cult following in Philadelphia and a lot of hostility elsewhere.
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