Rowan Brothers: Somewhat Glam And Slightly Teenage
Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, March 1973
"THE BROTHERLY Loverlies" kind of catchy, isn't it? That's what one of the teen mags called the Rowan Brothers when it tossed them to the young lions in the arena, there either to be mauled and discarded and never heard of again, or else, if their faces emanated the proper formula of looks and charisma, to pass into Sainthood and join Donny and Rick and the Williams Brothers in the hearts and on the walls of pubescent starmakers.
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