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Mowest, Mo' Problems: The Glorious Failure Of Motown's Californian Outpost

Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, 30 June 2011

In 1971 Motown set up a Californian arm, Mowest. As a new compilation shows, it put out some terrific music, but it was a commercial disaster

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