Country Joe: 69 years young, an' the fire's still burnin'!
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, December 1976
THE ONLY reason that the Blues is dying out is that the young folk simply don't want to know about the Blues. Even Blues legends such as B.B. King and Bobby Bland aren't selling the records or drawing the crowds as they did even four years back.
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