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Bobby Rush: Rush Hour (Philly International Import)

Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 2 February 1980

WITH A FEW honourable exceptions, the satin sounds of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's branded Philadelphia International label usually leave this writer's mojo idling. But then Bobby Rush's Rush Hour, which rolled off the TSOP production line last Autumn, could have come from someplace else altogether.

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