The Long Ryders: Happy Trails
Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 19 October 1985
THE LONG RYDERS might be all things to all men. An article of faith to those who have waited, unrequited but unbowed, for the advent of a 'new guitar music'; the Ryders are this.
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