Last week I spent the night with Al Kooper.  Wait, that sounded wrong.  What I meant was, I, along with about 20 other Minneapolis musicians all spent the evening jamming with him at The Dakota Jazz Club.   Al Kooper is a name many of you know, and a name the rest of you should know.  If you read his resume, you'd see what I mean.  Here are some snippets: He wrote "This Diamond Ring," performed by Gary Lewis and the Playboys Al played the signature organ riff on Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" as well as the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" He founded  the group Blood,...

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