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Talkin' Blues: John Lee Hooker/B.B. King/Bobby 'Blue' Bland

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 5 June 1982

THE BLUES speaks haltingly at first, haltingly and quietly in a darkened room. The curtains are drawn to shut out whatever passes for daylight during a dull noon hour in Hammersmith, and a battered guitar case decorated with stickers leans up against one wall.

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