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If it’s true opposites attract, then that certainly explains the unlikely blues-jazz duo of vocalist John McLean and guitarist Charles Barkatz. The octogenarian McLean, a longtime American in Paris, is a Renaissance type who has seemingly done it all: acting, directing, leading jazz groups and now songwriting. The Parisian-born Barkatz, 21 years McLean’s junior, is well-versed in blues and jazz as well as other forms of world music. Eventually, they inquired if Austin producer Mark Kazanoff...