Some frantic music to get the week off to an energetic start: the Dixie Dregs performing “The Bash” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1978. This was about a year after I spent New Year’s Eve listening to the Dregs at a place called Rose’s Cantina in Atlanta. Very interesting act.
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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
