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Cheatin' Meeting of Minds: 'The Dark End of the Street'

Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, 9 January 1994

"THIS IS probably one of the greatest songs that's ever come out of black American music," announces Ricky Ross over the piano intro to Deacon Blue's live version of 'The Dark End of the Street' (1991). "I first heard it done by Gram Parsons, and then by a guy called Ry Cooder..."

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