Tom T. Hall: For The People In The Last Hard Town (Mercury)
John Swenson, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
TOM T. HALL is unquestionably one of the finest country music songwriters ever to pick up a pen or belt down a double shot of Jack Daniels.
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