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Stanley Clarke Returns To Forever (For Now)

John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 24 February 1977

NEW YORK — Stanley Clarke sits attentively behind the mixing board in Electric Lady's Studio B, concentrating a dispassionate producer's gaze on Roy Buchanan in the sound room. Buchanan is trying to overdub lead guitar on a funk rocker written by Jan Hammer for Roy's next album, and the guitarist is faced with a perplexing technical problem.

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