Go, Johnny, Go: Thunders' So Alone
Ira Robbins, Sire Records, February 1992
AMONG THE LIFETIME residents of abyssville are those rock'n'rollers whose faith in the liberating rebellion of mangy guitar music gets crossed up into a personal need to defy authority – all authority, even a potentate as potent as nature.
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