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Chris Salewicz, NME, 20 December 1975
THE HEROIC singer-songwriter begins solo: a white-shirted, dark-trousered speck of religious experience at the end of the cattle barn. The Laura Ashley winsome-ness of 'Moon Shadow' sets the scene.
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