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Average White Band: White Band with Soul

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 19 December 1974

LOS ANGELES — Their name has a nice sense of irony and confidence, because the Average White Band plays music that is anything but white; despite their pale faces and soft Scottish accents, they play, sing and write as if to the ghetto born.

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