Sam Cooke: This Is Sam Cooke
Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971
SAM COOKE HAS always seemed, to me at least, the most underrated (or simply ignored you don't really rate these people) of all the great fifties rhythm and blues singers. As good as his gospel sides are, and they're tremendous, in a whole lot of ways he was even better when he went on to do "commercial" music, for there he reached a truly huge audience.
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