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Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line

Jerry Gilbert, EMI USA Records, 1989

THE SHADOW OF melancholy now seemed to rise like a weight from Gerry Rafferty's shoulders. 'Baker Street' was an instant smash and he went on tour with the core of top session team that had made City to City — men like Tommy Eyres, Gary Taylor, Hugh Burns, Jerry Donahue, and Henry Spinetti.

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