The Climax Blues Band: Live in Newcastle
Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 8 October 1977
THE CLIMAX Blues Band are fab. Not a profound remark, I know, but it needs saying because their fate in this country has nearly always been damnation by lukewarm praise. Hence their name has taken off like a stalagmite rather than a rocket-ship.
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