Willie Mitchell: Tell’Em Willie Boy Was Here
Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, June 1995
Willie Mitchell, maestro of the Memphis soul sound that gave the world Al Green, has his lifes work celebrated by the box set Hi Times: The R&B Years. His secret? "I decided to it funky and simple..."
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