James Blood Ulmer: Odyssey (CBS)
Richard Cook, NME, 21 January 1984
WITH THE unprecedented challenges of his earlier records taken up by nobody, and with his own position of fringe acclaim at a nebulous standstill, Blood Ulmer simply goes back into his shell on Odyssey.
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