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"One for the Road:" Elmore James

We mentioned this morning that Elmore James died on this date in 1963. The "King of the Slide Guitar" has a unique slide playing style and vocal phrasing that served as an inspiration to generations of blues singers following in his footsteps, and a proclivity for moonshine that may have hastened his demise. We could play "Dust My Broom," but that would be too easy. Let's play something else, instead.

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