LIke a Rolling Stone?

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/24/like-a-rolling-stone/

Washita Love Child

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/washita-love-child/

San Francisco Bay Blues

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/18/san-francisco-bay-blues/

 

A Punk Rock Paean

 Here is my review of a new book about musician Mia Zapata and her band, the Gits.  It is behind a firewall.  A yearly subscription is a mere 25 bucks....and well worth it!.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/17/a-punk-rock-paean/

Trying to Make a Living and Doing the Best They Could

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/21/trying-to-make-a-living-and-doing-the-best-they-could/ 

Talking About History and More with Rob Robertson on his Out of the Blank Podcast

 https://youtu.be/tcyWI5GrWJ4

Always a Carney at Heart

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/05/always-a-carney-at-heart/

J Edgar Did Not Dig No Rock and Roll

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/10/j-edgar-did-not-dig-no-rock-and-roll/

The Beatles are No More, Long Live the Beatles

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/21/the-beatles-are-no-more-long-live-the-beatles/

The Power of Song

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/the-power-of-song/

The Blues Had a White Baby and His Name was Michael Bloomfield

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/the-blues-had-a-white-baby-and-his-name-was-michael-bloomfield/

Warm San Francisco Nights

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/06/warm-san-francisco-nights/

Bargaining for Salvation in the Devil’s Arena

According to the legend, Jes’ Grew comes and goes. Its peaks in the past one hundred years include the jazz age and the age of Rock and roll and Rhythm and Blues. One might argue that certain dance music of the current period might also be a hearkening of the Jes’ Grew infestation, but I think its insistence on mechanization renders its inclusion unlikely. However, Jes’ Grew will never die. And it gestates in festivals like Warren Haynes annual benefit show in Asheville, North Carolina. If it doesn’t save your soul, at least it makes you feel like living for another day.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/16/bargaining-for-salvation-in-the-devils-arena/

Call Me Zimmerman--Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/call-me-zimmerman-bob-dylans-great-white-wonder/

Springsteen: Rockin’ the House in Albany, NY

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/rockin-the-house-in-albany-ny/

Dylan, Last Kind Words and a Mole in the Ground

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/dylan-last-kind-words-and-a-mole-in-the-ground/

The Ship of the Sun Bids Farewell

The line I said is from the Tibetan Book of the Dead is really from the Egyptian Book of the Dead---

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/the-grateful-dead-the-ship-of-the-sun-bids-farewell/

Going Down Highway 61, Again

The last sentence should read pedal to the metal, not petal....damned autocorrect:)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/21/going-down-to-highway-61-again/

Another Self Portrait--Bob Dylan Revisited

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/11/dylans-take-revisited/

Rock 'n Roll Nation

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/28/rock-n-roll-nation/