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A happy Fourth to all you revolutionaries

By Jay Bookman
July 1, 2016

To honor the Fourth of July weekend, I thought of going the full John Phillip Souza brass band route, but decided instead in favor of Steve Earle. The Fourth is the day we celebrate revolution, and as Steve reminds us, revolutions come on every scale.

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