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Jimmy Witherspoon: Blues Alive

Clinton Walker, RAM, 30 May 1980

THE PLAIN and simple truth is that the blues just ain't terribly fashionable in this day and age of passing fads like the mod, rockabilly and ska revivals. Least of all when the music's perpetrator Is a 57-year-old man who's more usually associated with jazz than he is rock'n'roll.

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