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Rab Noakes: Making it down South

Andrew Means, Melody Maker, 17 October 1970

AT A TIME when complex guitar work is attracting a tide of admirers it's invigorating to hear the contemporary material of Rab Noakes, a young Scotsman who writes his own songs. Although he is new to the south of England, Rab has been playing for some time in the north and his homeland. He was a member of the Great Fife Road Show, and recently had a very-successful tour in the Midlands.

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