Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Rolling Stone magazine issue # 76 February 18, 1971

Vintage issue # 76 of Rolling Stone magazine dated February 18, 1971 and featuring James Taylor on the cover.

Besides the excellent feature length article on Taylor, there are good read on John Lennon, Sam and Dave, bluesman Otis Blackwell, guitarist Roy Buchanan, Frank Zappa, Mama Cass, the band Seatrain, an expose of drugs in schools, and an interview with Canned Heat's guitarist Al Wilson shortly before his death.

Album reviews are of Pearl by Janis Joplin, Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John, Back Home Again by Norman Greenbaum, Wrong End of the Rainbow by Tom Rush, Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens, The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, Live by the Butterfield Blues Band, Naturally by Three Dog Night, What About Me by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Boss Man by Charlie Rich and many, many more.

Singles reviewed are Remember Me by Diana Ross, If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight and the Pips, I hear You Knockin' by Dave Edmunds, Ride a White Swan by Tyrannasaurus Rex (later shortened to T. Rex), and Love For Sale by Roy Brown.

Film reviews are of Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud and a few others.

Book reviews are of The Movement Toward a New America, Shards of God - a novel of the Yippies and Defiance No. 1 A Radical Review.

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