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Louis Jordan: "Still Feeling Good"

Michael Lydon, Ramparts, January 1974

"DRINK SOME beer and be of good cheer!" Louis Jordan stood on the dimly lit stage of Ruthie's Inn. Before him was a crowded floor of dancers, beyond them seated drinkers, and behind him his band, the Tympany Five, putting a rolling groove behind his litany of good advice.

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