Joe Tex: The Soul Of An Underdog
Joe McEwen, Boston Phoenix, 31 May 1977
THE SHOW was held at South Philadelphia's Spectrum, still a brand-new facility in 1969, but it could well have been the fare at North Philly's rattier, though venerable, Uptown Theater only a year or two before.
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