Labelle: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1972
THE IDEA of wedding an English or other foreign fan's perspective on the idiom with a fading American rhythm-and-blues group looks fine on paper, and has in fact succeeded notably in at least one case, that of the Flirtations. Labelle, appearing at the Whisky through Sunday, demonstrates such a wedding's potential for failure.
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