James Booker: 100 Club, London
Cliff White, NME, 19 March 1977
SOME FOLKS need two tons of equipment, the LSO, and a bunch of chorus girls or a performing elephant to justify their reputation. James Carroll Booker III does just as well with one grand piano, a small club's PA system and a soul full of unrequited talent.
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