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The Blues, for Walter Horton

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 25 February 1982

WHILE MAGIC Dick of the J. Geils Band was blowing a mean harmonica for 15,000 people at Boston Garden Monday night, Sugar Ray Norcia was doing likewise for 200 at the Tam in Brookline. There was no comparison in the audience sizes, but the level of emotional intensity at the Tam couldn't have been surpassed.

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