King Curtis: Blow Man, Blow! (Bear BCD 15670)
Pete Grendysa, Bear Family, 1992
"BLOW MAN, BLOW!" The big man with the glittering horn sent showers of squeals and shrieks out over the heads of his ecstatic shouting audience, feeding on their frenzy as he drove them ever closer to hysteria.
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