The Spencer Davis Group: Eight Gigs A Week — The Steve Winwood Years
Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, June 1996
BACK IN THE EARLY '60s, in their Golden Eagle residency days, The Spencer Davis Group played the whole gamut of American R&B from John Lee Hooker to Brenda Holloway, via Rufus Thomas and Elmore James.
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