Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York City
Lester Bangs, NME, 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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