The Sanford-Townsend Band: Smoke From A Distant Fire
Gene Sculatti, Real Gone Records, 2012
IT'S A FUNNY THING about brass rings. Sometimes they come round and we pass on them, forever locked out of a future that might've been. But sometimes we grab 'em and go for the ride of our life and never look back.
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