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Got Beer?
Jordan Flaherty
19 Aug 2009
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Oakland's Raymond Nat Turner, impresario of UpSurge Jazz shares with us this meditation on the utility and felicity of certain amber elixirs that lubricate the social interactions between police, presidents and others.

For much more of Raymond Nat Turner and Upsurge Jazz,  visit them at http://upsurgejazz.com, and be sure to snatch a copy of their CDs "Chromatology" and "All Hands On Deck".

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