Traffic In The States
Tony Stewart, NME, 25 February 1973
WHEN FOUR people have given rock one of its biggest facelifts, it's natural they should never be far apart. So in the same way that Dave Mason arrived in New York for Traffic's first States tour in '68, he magically appeared there again last week.
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