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Bernard Purdie
Bernard Purdie
Interview by Bob Girouard
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29th Aug 2018
On every track of his new album, Cool Down, the iconic R&B drummer burns like a house on fire in a live-in-the-studio setting. “And would you believe,” the pretty one adds, “with no overdubs at all!”
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