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Michael Jonzun: Pack Jammin' from Roxbury to the Top Ten

Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 14 November 1983

AT THE END of the street on the top of a hill in Roxbury is a two-story, weather-beaten wooden house. The first floor windows are boarded up, the screen door slams back and forth with every draft of wind, and the narrow staircase inside has holes through the flooring.

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