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Steeleye Span

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974

"ON OUR first American tour," says Ricardo Kemprini, famed Italian bass player, "the agents put us on the bill with everybody and his dog, right? And we were at this airport one day when suddenly I developed these chronic stomach cramps. All the others in the band yippee'd, because that meant we didn't have to go and do those dates with Black Oak Arkansas ."

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