It’s Alison Krauss’ 43d birthday. As a bridge from yesterday’s Costello commemoration, here’s Krauss performing the haunting song Elvis wrote with T.-Bone Burnett, “Scarlet Tide.”
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.
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