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Blackstar Rising

Justify Your Shitty Taste: Blackstar’s “Barbed Wire Soul”

September 19, 2019 Greg Pratt

Revisiting the rot ‘n’ roll of Blackstar‘s only album, 1997’s Barbed Wire Soul.

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