Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Classics
	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	3
	Plastic Ono Band	6
	"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	9
	Exile on Main Street	11
	Blood on the Tracks	14
	Bob Dylan's Blue Highways: The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3	16
	It's a Thursday Night in Athens, Georgia
	The Athens Scene	21
	R.E.M.'s Brave New World	28
	Rock Criticism and the Rocker: A Conversation With Peter Buck	41
	Lives and Deaths
	Blues Legends	65
	Eric Clapton: A Life at the Crossroads	71
	Kurt Cobain: 1967-1994	84
	No Mercy: Leonard Cohen's Tales from the Dark Side	87
	Jerry Garcia: Don't Look Back	94
	Robyn Hitchcock: A Wry Poet to the Devoted	97
	John Lennon: The Man	100
	John Mellencamp's Void in the Heartland	107
	Father of Bluegrass Is Dead at 84: Bill Monroe	118
	[actual symbol not reproducible] Free at Last	124
	Artist of the Year: The Rolling Stones	131
	Phil Spector: Back to Mono (1958-1969)	140
	Sting	149
	10,000 Maniacs Break Loose	161
	U2: Zoo World Order	172
	Wu-Tang Family Values	185
	Recordings
	The Bristol Sessions: Various Artists	195
	Autobiography of Mistachuck: Chuck D	197
	Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads and Library of Congress Recordings	199