Sunday, October 28, 2007

Rolling Stone magazine issue # 38 July 26, 1969

Rare and highly collectible Issue # 38 of Rolling Stone magazine dated July 26, 1969 featuring the classic cover of Jim Morrison. Besides the excellent feature length interview with Jim Morrison, there is a feature length article entitled Bringing It All Back Home, about Buddy Guy, blues and the roots of black music.

There are also good reads on the Newport '69 concert with performers Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Winter and the Rascals, the Denver Pop Festival at Mile High Stadium, the single The Ballad of John and Yoko, Columbia Records, the Grateful Dead, Tibetan Buddhism and, Big Joe Williams.

There is also an illustrated feature called Funk Against Junk - the Saga of the Narcotics Brigade. The column Random Notes is a fascinating time capsule which provides glimpses of the events and perspectives of the time.

Album reviews are of Crosby, Stills & Nash by CS&Y, Johnny Cash at San Quention by Johnny Cash, Little Richard's Greatest Hits by Little Richard, Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone, Brave New World by the Steve Miller Band and a few more.

Book reviews are of The Rock Revolution by Arnold Shaw and The Jefferson Airplane & the San Francisco Sound by Ralph J. Gleason. The Musicians Free Classified is for New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the East Coast.

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