'Entertainment' Isn't Enough For The Watersons
Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 4 February 1967
BIGGEST bombshell to hit the folk scene since Dave Swarbrick left Ian Campbell was my news in last week's MM, that the Watersons are to retire, just when they have become the biggest thing to happen to the folk group concept since the Weavers.
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