Blues musician Henry “Mule” Townsend was born on this day in 1909. Here’s his musical tribute to the town in Illinois where he grew up: “Cairo Blues.”
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.
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