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NRBQ: Girard's, Baltimore MD

Geoffrey Himes, Musician, November 1981

AL ANDERSON, NRBQ's rotund bear of a lead guitarist, gave his meanest squint and chewed up the title line to his rollicking, vintage-sounding rockabilly tune: "I can't quit it! I can't quit it, because it comes to me naturally." Terry Adams wrapped up the song with a hysterical brothel-style solo on the tinny upright piano.

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