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Ralph J. Gleason

Reporter

  • Caravanserai

    The Street's the same in New York or Frisco. It leads to heaven or hell, maybe both, and what comes down around you depends on how you travel just as much as where you're coming from. In that sense, Miles Davis from St. Louis by way of jazz and Carlos Santana from San Francisco by […]

    • Music
  • Perspectives: The Blood of a Poet

    As Dylan's career has progressed, his fanbase has changed along with him

    • Music
  • Perspectives: The Hidden Dylan Book

    A new book compares Dylan's lyrics to some of the great writers of the American tradition

    • Music
  • Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone, Again

    Times are changing and so is the songwriter

    • Music
  • Dylan: The Poet Returns, the Media Boggle

    Ruminations on the cultural impact of Bob Dylan

    • Music
  • On The Corner

    The Street's the same in New York or Frisco. It leads to heaven or hell, maybe both, and what comes down around you depends on how you travel just as much as where you're coming from. In that sense, Miles Davis from St. Louis by way of jazz and Carlos Santana from San Francisco by […]

    • Music
  • Santana III

    Santana goes back deep into the roots of today's music, not only just to the time when the Family Dog was at the Avalon, but back further into the heavy dosages of Latin and African rhythms that have been part of American music for a long time. For it's surely true that for all their […]

    • Music
  • Rock of Ages

    There is, if my addition and the record company's listed times are correct, precisely one hour, 11 minutes and 11 seconds of music on this album and it is the bargain of the decade at your favorite discount house. Recorded during the Band's four-night gig at the end of 1971 at New York's Academy of […]

    • Music
  • Perspectives: The Who are Good – and Loud

    On the exhilaration of sensory overload

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  • Altamont Revisited on Film

    The Maysles brothers' film 'Gimme Shelter' preserves the tragic concert like a bad dream

    • Music