Ellen Sander
Ellen Sander was Saturday Review's rock critic in the mid-late sixties and also wrote on rock for Vogue, The Realist, Cavalier, The L.A. Free Press, the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure section and others. She is the author of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (Scribner's 1973), which is frequently quoted and/or cited.
Her work on rock has been anthologized in The Conscious Reader (second edition), 4 Way Street, The CSNY Reader (DaCapo 2004), Rock and Roll is Here to Stay (Norton , 2000), Sisters of the Extreme ( Park Street Press, 2000) and The Best of the Realist (Running Press, 1984), among others.
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Beatles, The: The Beatles: Abbey Road
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, October 1969
WHENEVER A NEW Beatles album is released it's generally a critical and social as well as a musical event. Rock fans spend an entire week ...
Beaver and Krause: Earth People's Pop: Beaver and Krause's In A Wild Sanctuary
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, August 1970
GREAT AND MAJESTIC the mountains burst from the craggy surface, ethereal and delicate clouds nestle in their crevices. A hammerhead cloud hooks into the sky, ...
Tim Buckley: The Growing Mystique of Tim Buckley
Comment by Ellen Sander, Hit Parader, September 1968
HE DOESN'T talk very much and journalists are almost unanimous in their frustration of trying to get a word out of him. His presence is ...
Profile by Ellen Sander, Sing Out!, August 1967
LEONARD COHEN, Canadian born author, poet, songwriter, singer, the subject of a film. Leonard Cohen, incredibly handsome, immensely articulate tough-tender young man of our times. ...
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, November 1971
NO ONE would argue that Wildflowers and In My Life are classic albums; sheer, strong marriages of new art music and new classicism, ambitious and ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties: Excerpt from Chapter 8 – At Large
Book Excerpt by Ellen Sander, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973
IN THE wake of Chicago, David Crosby and Stephen Stills were moping around in Crosby's Los Angeles home one morning as summer was drawing to ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Renaissance Fare: Crosby, Stills and Nash's debut album
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, May 1969
NOW AND THEN, and not very often at that, there's a pop album that stands head and shoulders above the rest, one so characteristic and ...
Doors, The: The Doors: The Kingdom Has Crumbled
Report by Ellen Sander, Hit Parader, November 1969
A BITTER January day. The morning after a Doors concert, their biggest yet, at Madison Square Garden. The gate was $125,000.00, the performance was obedient ...
Electric Flag: A Between-Sets Interview With Buddy Miles Of The Electric Flag
Interview by Ellen Sander, Hullabaloo, October 1968
HULLABALOO "takes five" with one of the most exciting drummers in rock! ...
Fanny: Who's Who in Rock: Is the Demand a Drain?
Comment by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, March 1972
THINGS MOVE SO FAST in pop that all too frequently changes are not perceived. The very vitality of the scene often obscures its subtleties, its ...
Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: An Interview Sort Of With Zally
Report and Interview by Ellen Sander, Hullabaloo, June 1967
HE TILTED his head back and let out a howl. Bewildered, we asked him what it was all about. "A shreik of hate" he retorted. ...
Report and Interview by Ellen Sander, Realist, The, November 1968
THE CHORDS come flooding out of the amplifiers like a tonal wave, swelling to an impossible amplitude, blaring, ringing, pounding. A broad beam of noise ...
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, June 1971
THERE IS A tendency these days, particularly among writers, to become disillusioned with or even apathetic about pop. Among the peculiar literary breed that rock ...
Profile and Interview by Ellen Sander, Hit Parader, March 1969
THEY WERE to be the super group. A collection of the seven best musicians six months ago when producer Paul Rothchild conceived of them and ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (London)
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, January 1969
Beggars' Triumph ...
Interview by Ellen Sander, Rock's Backpages Audio, October 1983
Te 'Runaway' man on the trials and tribulations of being a still-creative musician on the "oldies" circuit; songwriting; working with Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Dave Edmunds; and his insecurities and struggle with alcohol.
File format: mp3; file size: 50.5mb, interview length: 55' 11" sound quality: ***
Paul Siebel: Woodsmoke and Oranges/Jackknife Gypsy
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, January 1971
PAUL SIEBEL albums, I have found, are a good prescription for tired ears, sort of country Geritol boosting the funk and grit in the bloodstream ...
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, August 1969
BONNIE BRAMLETT (of Delaney and Bonnie) may have honed her pipes in small Southern towns where Ike and Tina Turner were the local band, and ...
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