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The Bobby Keys Band: Mercy Lounge, Nashville

Holly Gleason, No Depression, 3 May 2011

THERE ARE FEW musicians synonymous with an oeuvre or a sound, yet Bobby Keys pretty much defines rock & roll saxophone, especially of the Rolling Stones varietal. Sweaty, moist, intense, raw, in your face yet melodic, his riffs have been as much a part of AOR radio as Mick's yowl or Keith's downstroke.

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