Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973
FOR QUITE A few years, black American singers have milked Nashville for meaningful ballad songs. Joe Simon, Esther Phillips, Joe Tex and O.C. Smith are just three who have scored with material first written in the country idiom.
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