Tommy James: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, August 1976
IT WAS INCREDIBLY good and it was incredibly frustrating. Tommy James was stunning. As a terminally addicted Top 40 fetishist I've come to expect the worst when an AM pop idol comes to town.
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