David Porter: Gritty Groovy Now He's Got It
John Abbey, Blues & Soul, November 1970
REMEMBER THE big Soul boom of last year when every second record on the pop chart was a revived Soul sound? Naturally, everyone saw this to be good for our music B&S included but what many people failed to notice was that at that very same time, our music was going through a dull and rather uninteresting stage in the States.
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