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McCabe's Fights the Folk Yoke

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 31 August 1980

YOU WOULD expect a venue that's been presenting live popular music longer than any local club this side of the Lighthouse to be a familiar landmark by now, but it hasn't worked out that way for McCabe's. The Santa Monica guitar shop has been putting on weekend concerts for 20 years, but it still seems like a well-kept secret.

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