Fare Thee Well
Once Jerry Garcia died in 1995, The Grateful Dead went to hell. Read how.
Tag: De Capo Press
Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye
Poised to change the world with Sticky Fingers, the Stones in 1971 were fleeing the UK. Robert Greenfield gives us a look behind the scenes.
Fug You
Whoever said “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there” obviously never met Ed Sanders. The leader of The Fugs and the Peace Eye bookstore recalls the counter-culture of the 1960s in vivid detail.
To Live’s to Fly
Sheila Scoville discovers the great Townes Van Zandt through John Kruth’s freewheeling new testament to the hard-luck cowboy junkie, folk balladeer, lyrical healer and misfit hellion. And that doesn’t even begin to sum him up.
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