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Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: On Tour; Flying Burrito Brothers: Burrito Deluxe; John Phillips: Wolfking of LA

Richard Williams, The Times, 20 June 1970

THAT DELANEY AND BONNIE have been instrumental in reshaping a considerable part of the ethos of modem pop music is indisputable. Eric Clapton, the charismatic British guitarist who is among their accompanying "Friends" on this album, recently claimed that working with the pair reawakened the almost-extinguished joy he gets from playing, and with aficionados like that who can be said to have failed?

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