Big Joe Turner
Pete Grendysa, Rhino Records, 1994
SHOW BUSINESS is full of Kings, Queens, Counts, Dukes, and even a Boss, but high above all the royalty shines the real Boss Of The Blues, the one and only Big Joe Turner, casual conqueror of more than four decades of musical change.
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