VIDEO: "Papa was a Rolin' Stone" – Daryl Hall, Train

March 5, 2012 by Rob Nichols

From Daryl Hall’s outstanding web series called “Live from Daryl’s House”, this version of the Temptations classsic sounds eerily like the original. Soulful re-creation. Killer groove.
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