The Chambers Brothers: New Generation
Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 27 May 1971
AT THE OUTSET, the Chambers Brothers were a warmly exciting gospel act (catalogued on a series of fine albums released by Vault), but they apparently caught an overdose of San Francisco, for their music then digressed into an exercise of that city's worst musical implications.
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