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Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York City

Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976

THE FUNDAMENTAL things apply, as time goes by. Like Sister Ray, for instance. It had only been out for a couple of years when Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers first recycled it as Roadrunner in 1970, for a John Cale produced album that was so raw Warner Brothers never got around to putting it out.

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