Bobby Womack: The Poet (Tamla Motown)/Ashford & Simpson: Street Opera (Capitol)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 26 June 1982
TWO SOUL products from the mainstream, one of which, The Poet, has been on import since last year, the other being the latest album from a songwriting partnership first hired by Tamla Motown sixteen years ago.
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