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- ↑ Professor RJ Ross on All Music Guide
- ↑ Review on Smooth & Soul
- ↑ Tabu Records on Discogs.com
- ↑ "Sherwood - Bob Ross". www.romanticrecords.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999.
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