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Chris Whitley: A Latter-Day Folkie Gets Noisy

Tony Scherman, The New York Times, 26 March 1995

THE ROCKER TODAY whose music evokes Jimi Hendrix's splendid noise more powerfully than anyone else's is Chris Whitley – an improbable claim, given Mr. Whitley's only previous album, the muted Living With the Law.

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