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Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth: Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth

Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972

MUZAK ROCK is a difficult art. Because the line between soulfulness and boredom is often a thin one, few artists can pull it off. Van Morrison, for example, is one of the few. Some people have called his recent work muzak, but if so, it is certainly a brilliant example of the genre.

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