Time for The Chambers Brothers!
Barney Hoskyns, Mojo Collections, December 2001
IN THE STANDARD ANNALS OF "black rock", the acknowledged progenitors tend to be the usual suspects – Hendrix, Sly, Love. But there was another act who can lay equal claim to have given birth to it.
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