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A Lady in Show Business: Carla Thomas, the New Blues Queen

Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 September 1967

SHE'S AN authority on 18th Century drama, a favorite among the GIs in Vietnam and has one of the most caressing voices on records. She's Carla Thomas, 25, who has come up out of Tennessee with a blues-tinged style which is earning her the soubriquet of the "Queen of the Memphis Sound."

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