For no particular reason, let’s feature some music by Looziana-turned-Chicago bluesman Lonnie Brooks today. Here he is performing “Mojo Hand” in 1997.
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Ed Kilgore, a Monthly contributing editor, is a columnist for the Daily Intelligencer, New York magazine’s politics blog, and the managing editor for the Democratic Strategist.
