Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Barney Hoskyns, Elektra Records, Summer 1996
IN SO MANY ways, Breads is a quintessentially L.A. pop story. An Oklahoman and a Tennessean make their separate ways to Hollywood in the early '60s and establish footholds in the nascent pop industry.
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