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From there the route to success was more certain. Sogoloff had them back again in March, but this time as the feature attraction. In search of experience and exposure they landed jobs in concerts and at small clubs. "It really helped that we could say that we'd played at Lennie's," Lyons said. "People would give us a chance...
...break for Guns & Butter came when Lennie Sogoloff, of the renowned club Lennie's on the Turnpike, agreed somewhat reluctantly ("Well, it doesn't knock me on my ass," he said) to let them back up the James Cotton Blues Band for one night. That night G & B stacked the house with relatives, friends, anybody they could convince to pay the cost of admission. "They started yelling for us to do encores before we even came on." Lyons recalled. Sogoloff wasn't fooled, but kept them on another night to see how they'd do. They did well enough...
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