Tommy Tate: Singing For The Soul Of It
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 11 January 1986
BARNEY HOSKYNS meets Mississippi soulman TOMMY TATE, whose 'What gives You The Right' is one of the "Sweetest, saddest black pop records of all time".
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