Tony Joe White: Ronnie Scott's, London
Cliff White, NME, 4 June 1977
IT'S MIDNIGHT, and I'm still dazed from a bolt out of the blue which hit me some time around 1.15 this afternoon. Completely unexpectedly, Tony Joe White laid on one of those spontaneously ace gigs that stick in the memory for years.
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