Charles Wright Expresses Himself
R.J. Smith, Grand Royal, 1995
YOU COULD see the 8x11 flyers when you got off the freeway north of downtown, or drove down Melrose, or about 100 other locations. Block letters on pink construction paper asked one question: Whatever happened to Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band?
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