Jim White has just released his fourth album, the best of his career and sure to remain, nine months from now, one of the best of 2008. A musically complex collection of 12 distinct songs, ...

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To meet this moment, we need YOU. For five decades, Mother Jones has been exposing the corruption that the powerful would rather keep buried. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it ...