Guy Clark: Old No. 1
John Tobler, ZigZag, May 1976
THIS RECORD is a positive gem. However, unless some large quantity of record buyers pick up on it, it is destined to languish in the same obscurity which surrounds records by the International Submarine Band and Kaleidoscope, for example.
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