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David Ackles: American Gothic (Elektra)

Nick Tosches, Creem, October 1972

WHAT IS THIS sophomoric obsession with didactic irony and moralism anyway? I mean, is this guy serious or what? I've heard of living in the past and all, but this Ackles fellow really takes the cake!

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