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Lap steel guitar virtuoso Sonny Rhodes is 75 today. Here he is performing “Black Cat Bone” in Lima, Ohio in 2009.
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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