In 1969, the author visited Dylan's hometown in Hibbing, Minnesota, for a six-part series

"Dylan’s survived, grown up. He’s a giant, like Chaplin or Picasso. Like Brando or Muhammed Ali . . . Nobody else even comes close — Jagger, Springsteen, Paul Simon."

“It’s like two ex-lovers planning to spend a night together for the first time in seven years, this reunion of Dylan and his American audience tonight. Do they act their ages for each other or do they revive aging acts?”

With the Stones holding out at MSG, Patti Smith and her band at the Other End, and Bob Dylan making visitations to both events, New York was once again the world’s Rock and Roll Republic.

A new cohort of standard bearers feels its oats in a world gone wrong

Soft New Flow races Big Old Beat into the racial present: The 25th (or 26th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Bonbon Top 40 and a bottomless anthology supplant an old vanguard: The 24th (or 25th) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

In 1975 we called Blood on the Tracks "the excruciating cry of a man who is tormented by his own freedom."