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James Booker: R&B's Invisible Great

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1983

The late James Booker fit comfortably into the New Orleans R&B piano tradition of Fats Domino but he also was a contemporary equivalent of the old barrelhouse pianists who played boogie-woogie in plush bordellos.

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