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Sir Doug Weston's Troubadour: They Hate it, but They Play it

Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 18 January 1973

LOS ANGELES — Why was Joni Mitchell recently playing the Troubadour folk club for several nights when she could play for as many people (and more money) in just one concert at the Pavilion or Santa Monica Civic Auditorium? Was it love of her audiences, an urgent desire to be close to her public, or abiding fondness for Doug Weston, owner of the Troubadour?

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