John Holt: Reggae In The Moonlight
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 1 February 1975
ETHNIC REGGAE'S TRADITIONAL image has been of rough raw-edged sounds, but Jamaica has always had just as strong a strain of ultra-smooth ballad-styled sounds.
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