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Cornell Dupree: "Mean N' Greasy"

uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1973

"IT'S HIGH time that session musicians were given greater recognition. After all, it's often their playing which makes a hit record, rather than the singing of the billed star who gets all the credit." ...that is the considered opinion of Cornell Dupree. The chances are that you've never heard of him, which only goes to underline his point.

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