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But in the gutsy rasp of his voice you can hear hard-won wisdom regarding more than that.

The new mix showcases the singer's strength as a vocalist - with a tell-tale rasp that catches on the song's message of friendship and solidarity.

What endures is the rasping byplay, the soaring exasperation, the tango of opposing temperaments finding fleeting common ground.

“They don’t like that old man voice,” she said of Biden’s rasp and the way his words seemed to disappear.

“To give you an idea of the intensity, my first week that I actually had off, where it was just Margaret working, I got shingles,” Moore says, almost proudly, in her familiar deep rasp.