Having spent three recent weeks in Atlanta, and returning there for Christmas, the music of my salad days has come flooding back to my memory banks. Here’s the forgotten but brilliant Atlanta band The Roys performing at the Atlanta Arts Festival in 1983 at some length. In their third song Jeff Calder and Anne Boston of the Swimming Pool Qs sit in. Enjoy:

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