Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 5 January 1974
IT IS 1974. A young man in patched blue jeans walks to the front of the folk club, a guitar in his hand. He sits down and plays 'Original Rags', written by Scott Joplin in 1899. There is rapturous applause.
Total word count of piece: 1317
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