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Jerry Portnoy: Down In The Mood Room

Read "Down In The Mood Room" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2002

The New Harmonica King...forget John Popper, that soulless technician.

I am a child of the '70s. In some respects that is terribly unfortunate. I listened to a light year of bad music in that decade before discovering Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Santana, ZZ Top, The J. Geils Band, and Ten Years After. Listening to Beaker Street on KAAY— The Voice of the South, I first heard the J. Geils Band and Magic Dick playing on Full House Live. ...