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And then there’s politics. He’s raised money for Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and blasted the Bush administration’s cleanup efforts after Hurricane Katrina. Last September, he sang at a birthday party for former President Clinton.
McGraw, who describes himself as a Southern populist Democrat, grew up in Start, Louisiana, about 60 miles from the birthplace of Huey “The Kingfish” Long, the flamboyant populist of the 1920s and ’30s.