James Blood Ulmer
Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 1998
THOUGHT THERE'S BEEN hundreds and thousands of hotshots who vowed to take the guitar to the next level after Jimi Hendrix broke the doors open, James 'Blood' Ulmer is one of the very few people to actually do this.
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