For no particular reason, here’s Blind Willie Johnson performing his powerful “The Soul of a Man.”
Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.
More by Ed KilgoreFor no particular reason, here’s Blind Willie Johnson performing his powerful “The Soul of a Man.”

Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.
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