Ry Cooder: London
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 5 February 1977
IT WAS like seeing three movies on one screen. On your right, you have this three-man gospel-style streetcorner vocal section – Bobby and Eldridge King, Terry Evans – in jumpers and slacks, all gyrating, nay, frugging even, with the fervent abandon of actors auditioning for the disco in a late-60's Hollywood thriller.
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