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2011 Passings: Requiescat in pace

By Duane Shank
Pinetop Perkins via Wylio: http://bit.ly/tCKyOF
Pinetop Perkins via Wylio: http://bit.ly/tCKyOF
Jan 2, 2012
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It’s good to start a new year by remembering those who passed in the just concluded year.  These aren’t the most famous (or infamous), and I didn’t know them personally (or, at best, had met several briefly), but their lives touched mine in three of my passions: American roots music, politics and public life, and baseball.

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