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For no particular reason other than my waking up with a distinct sense of weltschmerz, here’s Robin Trower performing “Bridge of Sighs” in 1974.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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