Foreword to Outlaw Blues by Paul Williams
Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, April 1969
[For the 21st-century edition of this book, Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine and the author of Rock Folk, Boogie Lightning and Ray Charles: Man and Music, has allowed Entwhistle Books to include as a foreword his review of Outlaw Blues as it appeared in the April 19, 1969 issue of Rolling Stone...]
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