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The Tubes: B.B. King's, NYC

Kris DiLorenzo, Rock's Backpages, 22 September 2011

THE INTRODUCTORY MUSIC was samba, then Fee Waybill came out and busted up 'This is a Man's World' ─ in English and Italian. He knocked it out of the park. Who knew he was so funky? Well, Waybill is Sicilian, Sicily is practically Africa, Sicilians are practically Africans, and that's where all the great music started.

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