Ray Sawyer: Hooked On Country And R&B
Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, 2 February 1980
RAY SAWYER isn't Dr Hook, but he does have an eye patch a real one and a pirate persona. He also had an earlier existence in Southern roots music.
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