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Al Kooper: Los Angeles CA

Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, February 1971

MAKING HIS first Southern California appearance as a single after three previous attempts, Al Kooper proved that the wait wasn't worthwhile. Whatever his stature is in the New York power structure (sort of an East Coast Leon Russell, apparently), he simply doesn't cut it as a performer.

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