Outlaw Blues: A Book of Rock Music

As founder and editor of Crawdaddy! magazine, Paul Williams has helped the rock music field itself, as well as outsiders, to recognize the importance of rock as a modern music and as a facet of modern experience. In Outlaw Blues, his first book, the author presents his own experience of rock music, the history of his reactions and insights over a two-year period.

For a critic to offer something true to his readers, he must be more than an appraiser. He must be a listener, deeply and passion...