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Etta James, RIP

Jesse Walker | 1.20.2012 12:01 PM

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Say goodbye to a singer so talented she could make an Eagles song sound good:

Here she is covering Tammy Wynette. Here she is covering Ray Charles. Here's her most famous hit, in which she reinvigorated an old Glenn Miller song. And here's her obit in the Chicago Sun-Times.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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