Taj Mahal: Recycling the Blues
Max Bell, NME, 11 August 1979
"I'm goin to the river goin to sit down on the ground/I'm goin to the river goin to sit down on the ground/And let the waves of water wash my troubles down."
Mississippi Fred McDowell
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