Way Out West With 8-Eyed Spy
Byron Coley, New York Rocker, May 1980
IF LYDIA LUNCH'S Queen Of Siam hadn't come out when it did, I'd probably still be freezin' my butt off in Ketchum, Idaho, a town of maybe 2500 nestled firmly in the Sawtooth Mountains.
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