As promised, here’s the guitarist and songwriter J.J. Cale, who died last weekend at the age of 74, performing “Call Me the Breeze.”

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.