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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: The New Orleans Album (Columbia)

Richard C. Walls, Musician, June 1990

I KNOW this is supposed to be jolly listening — and much of it is — but there's something about records like this that taps a small vein of irritability in me, that often contained but consistent discontent which probably led me to be a critic in the first place.

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