Stan Ridgway's Rock Noir: The Big Heat
Don Snowden, Boston Phoenix, 1 April 1986
IF YOU JUDGED him from his work as the mouthpiece of LAs Wall of Voodoo, youd be tempted to dismiss Stan Ridgway as an irredeemably smarmy little wiseass.
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