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Sam Cooke: Soul and Inspiration

Lenny Kaye, Wondering Sound, 31 August 2010

Possessed of a purity of voice and an unerring sense of pop metaphysics, the incomparable Sam Cooke was a singer of soul and inspiration who stands at the crossroads of the divine and secular.

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