Lost Soul: James Carr
Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 2000
THE SETTING is not a promising one. Its late on a muggy Friday night, a "blues" club on Bleecker Street, NYC, June of 1996. A small but noisy throng of bridge-and-tunnelers has decided that this might be a cool place to imbibe large quantities of Coors Lite.
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