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Bibliography Notes: 1967-1974

These files attempt to list every known Robert Christgau article, in preparation for building a bibliographic database. They are scaffolding: something we use to build on, but not part of the finished structure. Links are provided to the website where articles are available. Entries without links are work-to-be-done. As such, this provides a checklist for adding content to the website.

Most of the original data for these files comes from Joe Yanosik.

Village Voice

DateTitle/Notes
1969-03-27 Gap Again: white blues
1969-04-10 Kinks Kountry: Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society
1969-04-24 New Thing: jazz
1969-05-01 Dylan: Nashville Skyline
1969-06-05 The Continuing Saga of the MC5
1969-06-12 Whooopee!: The Who: Tommy
1969-07-03 Rock 'n' Revolution: Johnny Cash, MC5
1969-07-10 Consumer Guide (1): Procul Harum: Salty Dog [A+], Grateful Dead: Aoxmoxoa [A], The Original Delaney & Bonnie [A+], Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band's Greatest Hits [A-], Fairport Convention [A-], The Velvet Underground [A]; note: the chapter in Any Old Way You Choose It called Consumer Guide (1) was actually cobbled together from the first three Consumer Guides
1969-07-24 Movie Music: Uptight
1969-07-31 Consumer Guide (2): NRBQ [A-], Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison, Aretha Franklin: Aretha's Gold
1969-08-14 Consumer Guide (3): Otis Redding: Love Man [A-], Mother Earth, Living With the Animals, Movie: The TAMI Show
1969-09-04 Elvis Presley: Aging Rock: Elvis live
1969-09-18 Consumer Guide (4): J.B. Hutto & His Hawks: Hawk Squat!
1969-12-04 In Memory of the Dave Clark Five: Road Trip Diary
1969-12-11 Consumer Guide (5): Firesign Theatre: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once [A+], Pacific Gas & Electric [A-]
1970-01-08 Album of the Year: The Masked Marauders
1970-01-15 Consumer Guide (6): Jerry Butler: Ice on Ice [A-], Butterfield Blues Band: Keep On Moving [A], Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker! [A], Ray Charles: Doing His Thing [A], Arlo Guthrie: Running Down the Road [A], Grateful Dead: Live/Dead [A+], Janis Joplin: Kozmic Blues Again [A-], Kinks: Arthur [A-], Rascals: See [A-]; books: Greil Marcus: Rock & Roll Will Stand, Nik Cohn: Rock From the Beginning, Paul Williams: Outlaw Blues
1970-01-29 Consumer Guide (7): Ella Fitzgerald: Ella [A], Mother Earth: Make a Joyful Noise [A], Ike & Tina Turner: River Deep, Mountain High [A-], Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country [A]
1970-02-12 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Featuring Eric Clapton
1970-02-26 Consumer Guide (8): Aretha Franklin: This Girl's in Love With You [A-], Rod Stewart: The Rod Stewart Album [A-]
1970-04-23 Consumer Guide (9): Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy and the Poorboys [A+], Allen Ginsberg: William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience [A], Van Morrison: Moondance [A], Van Morrison: Astral Weeks, Randy Newman: 12 Songs [A+], Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air [A-], Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency! [A], Memphis Blues (Kent)
1970-05-14 We Should Be Together: Jefferson Airplane concert
1970-05-21 Jazz Annual: Miles Davis: In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain
1970-05-28 Consumer Guide (10): Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night [A], Ike & Tina Turner: Come Together [A], Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton: On Tour [A]
1970-06-11 Look at That Stupid Girl
1970-06-18 Consumer Guide (11): Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead [A], Jesse Winchester [A-]
1970-07-23 R. Meltzer: R. Meltzer: The Aesthetics of Rock
1970-07-30 Consumer Guide (12): The Fugs: Golden Filth [A], Nolan: No Apologies [A-], Sweet and Greasy (Imperial)
1970-10-15 A Musical Weekend: Road Trip?
1970-11-05 Rock Is Obsolescent But So Are You
1970-11-19 Consumer Guide (14): Firesign Theatre: Don't Crush That Dwarf [A+], Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House [A-], John McLaughlin: Devotion [A-], J.B. Lenoir: Natural Man (Chess)
1970-12-24 Capt. B. Fart: Captain Beefheart
1971-01-07 Consumer Guide (15): Beach Boys: Sunflower [A], Canned Heat: Future Blues [A], Derek & the Dominoes: Layla [A], Johnny Winter And [A-], Delaney & Bonnie: To Bonnie From Delaney [A-], Grateful Dead: American Beauty [A-]
1971-03-04 Where Do You Go From the Top?: CCR/Doors
1971-03-11 Consumer Guide (16): Jimi Hendrix: Cry of Love [A-], Van Morrison: His Band & Street Choir [A-], Mother Earth: Satisfied [A-], Leon Thomas: The Leon Thomas Album [A], Janis Joplin: Pearl [A-], Joy of Cooking [A], The Velvet Underground: Loaded [A]
1971-04-15 Joy: Joy of Cooking
1971-04-22 Consumer Guide (17): Crazy Horse [A], Faces: Long Player [A-], Mississippi John Hurt: Best of (Vanguard double), Alice Cooper: "I'm Eighteen"
1971-06-10 Consumer Guide (18): Big Brother: Be a Brother [A], Miles Davis: Jack Johnson [A+], Kind of Blue, Milestones, Delaney & Bonnie: Motel Shot [A], Carole King: Tapestry [A-], Mother Earth: Bring Me Home [A], Booker T.: Melting Pot [A-], Uptight (Stax), Magazine: Creem
1971-07-08 Bill Graham: Fillmore East
1971-08-19 Consumer Guide (19): Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story [A], Joni Mitchell: Blue [A-], Grateful Dead: Live/Dead, Big Brother: Cheap Thrills, The Who: Who's Next [A+], Swamp Dogg: Total Destruction to Your Mind, Echoes of a Rock Era: The Early Years (Roulette)
1971-09-16 Living Without the Beatles, Pt. 1
1971-09-30 Living Without the Beatles, Pt. 2
1971-10-14 Consumer Guide (20): Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love & Hate [A-], The Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead [A-], New Riders of the Purple Sage [A-], The Rascals: Search & Nearness [A-]
1971-11-25 When You Consider Your Condition . . .: Jazz, Steve Marcus: Tomorrow Never Knows, Gato Barbieri: Fenix, Tony Williams Lifetime: Ego
1971-12-02 Consumer Guide (21): Al Green: Gets Next to You [A], Tom T. Hall: In Search of a Song [A], Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey [A-], Three Dog Night: Harmony [A], The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions [A-], Ray Charles: 25th Anniversary Salute, Spike Jones: Is Murderng the Classics (RCA Red Seal), Arthur Crudup (RCA Vintage Series), Washboard Sam (RCA Vintage Series)
1971-12-16 Weird Scenes After the Gold Rush: could this be one of the undated pieces below?
1971-12-30 Consumer Guide (22): David Bowie: Hunky Dory [A-], Detroit [A-], Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink [A], Nils Lofgren/Grin: 1+1 [A-], Nillson: Schmillson [A-], Nillson: Harry, Sly & the Family Stone: Riot [A-], Their Greatest Recordings Series (Atco)
1971-12-?? Couper-Trouper: Alice Cooper
1971-12-?? Dead Heads Pay Their Dues: Grateful Dead
1971-12-?? I Am Dylan
1972-01-20 Consumer Guide (23): The Move: Message From the Country [A-], Helen Reddy [A-], Boz Scaggs & Band [A-], Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers [A-], Etta James: Peaches, Book: Peter Guralnick: Feel Like Going Home
1972-02-10 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll: Essay: Poll Results, Critics' Poll, Dean's List
1972-02-17 What Does It All Mean: Poll results
1972-03-02 Consumer Guide (24): Blue Oyster Cult [A-], Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin: Inner Mountain Flame [A], Paul Simon [A+], Moby Grape: Great Grape, Heavy Soul (Atlantic)
1974-09-12 Consumer Guide (48): John Coltrane: Africa/Brass Vol. 2 [A], Bobby Bland: Dreamer [A-], David Holland Quartet: Conference of the Birds [A], The Wild Magnolias [A-], Nillson: Pussy Cats [A-]
1074-10-10 Pop Muse: The Yankees Learn to Lose
1974-10-24 Consumer Guide (49): Labelle: Nightbirds [A-], Randy Newman: Good Old Boys [A], Esther Phillips: Performance [A-], Richard Pryor: That Nigger's Crazy [A], Duke Ellington: Flaming Youth
1974-11-21 Consumer Guide (50): Millie Jackson: Caught Up [A-], Raspberries: Starting Over [A-]
1974-12-16 Stevie Wonder Is a Fool: Stevie Wonder
1974-12-23 Consumer Guide (51): Leonard Cohen: New Skin for Old Ceremony [A], John Coltrane: Interstellar Space [A-], Firesign Theatre: Everything You Know Is Wrong [A-], McCoy Tyner: Echoes of a Friend, Super Black Blues

Book World

DateTitle/Notes
1973-01-07 Confessions of an Aging Rock Critic: book: Jon Landau: It's Too Late to Stop Now: A Rock and Roll Journal

Cheetah

DateTitle/Notes
1967-04 Two Nights in the Life of a Soul Man: Wilson Pickett
1967-12 Rock Lyrics Are Poetry (Maybe)
1968-?? The Supreme Achievement of the Second Industrial Revolution

Creem

Note: These come from contents summaries on the Creem website. There are certainly more Consumer Guide reprints than noted.

DateTitle/Notes
1972-07 The Christgau Consumer Guide
1972-09 The Christgau Consumer Guide
1973-01 I Can't Get No Satisfaction
1973-02 Chuck Berry's Back From the Blues
1973-06 Alice's New Show: Lust, Greed & Dental Hygiene

Esquire

DateTitle/Notes
1967-06 Secular Music (1)
1967-10 Secular Music (2): soul, not in Any Old Way You Choose It
1967-12 Secular Music (3)
1968-01 Anatomy of a Love Festival
1968-05 Secular Music (4)
1968-06 Secular Music (5)
1968-?? Secular Music (6): blues, not in Any Old Way You Choose It
1968-11 Secular Music (7)
1969-04 Secular Music (8)

Fusion

DateTitle/Notes
1971-04-00 review: Jim Bouton: Ball Four

Harper's Magazine

DateTitle/Notes
1969-09 Rock Critics: Book review: Richard Goldstein, The Poetry of Rock; Arnold Shaw, The Rock Revolution; Nik Cohn, Rock From the Beginning; Paul Williams, Outlaw Blues; Jonathan Eisen, ed., The Age of Rock

Los Angeles Times

DateTitle/Notes
1970-11-29 A Slender Hope for Salvation: book: Charles A. Reich: The Greening of America; subsequently reprinted in Philip Nobile, ed., The Con III Controversy, Pocket Books (New York, 1971), paperback

Newsday

Note: All record capsules can be found in 70's book unless otherwise noted.

DateTitle/Notes
1972-03-17 article: Grammy Awards
1972-03-24 article: Grateful Dead
1972-04-03 article: Sly & the Family Stone
1972-04-09 2 record capsules
1972-04-16 article: Neil Young, 1 capsule
1972-04-30 article: Aretha Franklin, first four LP's "uniformly excellent"
1972-04-?? Adventures of the Dean of Long Island Rock Critics: Country Joe McDonald
1972-04-?? Tom Jones
1972-05-01 article: Three Dog Night
1972-05-07 Mark, Don, Mel, and Terry: Grand Funk Railroad
1972-05-09 caps: Tom T. Hall: We All Got Together [C+], John Lee Hooker: Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (Bluesway) (The Hook, being the Hook, almost never makes a bad album, but he does tend to be a little too boogie-ing even. This one breaks the pattern, with an agonizing version of "T.B. Sheets," an apt contribution from Van Morrison, and great studio work from guitarists Luther Tucker, Mel Brown, and Elvin Bishop) [A-]
1972-05-14 article: Mahavishnu Orchestra
1972-05-15 The Tull Perplex: Jethro Tull
1972-05-21 Bill Graham: Bill Graham
1972-05-28 caps
1972-05-?? Engelbert Humperdinck
1972-06-11 article: Chi-Lites, 2 caps
1972-06-12 Elvis Presley: Aging Rock
1972-06-15 article: Led Zeppelin: "Since I Been Loving You (live)"
1972-06-18 2 caps
1972-06-23 caps: John Mayall: Jazz/Blues Fusion [C-]
1972-06-25 Trying to Understand the Eagles: Eagles, 1 cap
1972-06-?? All My Friends Call Me a Fool: AM, FM
1972-07-02 Smokey Robinson: Smokey Robinson, 2 caps
1972-07-06 article: Rolling Stones live (RFK Stadium, DC 7/4/72)
1972-07-09 John Lennon's Realpolitik: John & Yoko: Some Time in NYC
1972-07-12 caps: Beach Boys: Carl & the Passions, So Tough/Pet Sounds (If you're a Beach Boys fan, you already own Pet Sounds, although not in its pristine mono form. If you're not, Pet Sounds is still available on Capitol (in ts sullied duophonic form) in a 3-record set boxed "Beach Boys Deluxe Set") [C+]
1972-07-14 article: Manfred Mann, 2 caps, Brian Auger's Oblivion Express: Second Wind (RCA) [D+]
1972-07-23 The Rolling Stones: Can't Get No Satisfaction: Stones concluded a 6 week, 51 date US tour w/4 dates at Madison Sq. Garden this week
1972-07-25 Rolling Stones: They Need Us, We Need Them: live
1972-08-04 caps
1972-08-06 Bette Midler: The Art of Compassion: Bette Midler, 2 caps
1972-08-13 article: Van Morrison, Astral Weeks, Rod Stewart
1972-08-16 article: Modern Lovers live
1972-08-20 3 caps
1972-08-27 The Drifters in History: Drifters reunion, 2 caps
1972-09-03 article: Asleep at the Wheel, 2 caps, Melton Levy and the Dey Bros. (Columbia) [C]
1972-09-10 article: Kinks, 2 caps.
1972-09-11 article: Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival '72, Pharoah Sanders
1972-09-17 article: Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival Pt. 2, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Les Stances a Sophie
1972-09-21 caps: Al Green (Bell) [D], Professor Longhair: New Orleans Piano (Atlantic) [B+]
1972-09-24 article: Ricky Nelson, caps, J.D. Souther (Asylum) [C+]
1972-09-29 caps: John Fahey: Of Rivers and Religion [A]
1972-10-01 article: Frank Zappa
1972-10-13 caps
1972-10-15 caps: You Must Remember These, Volume 1 (Bell) [A], Echoes of a Rock Era: The Early Years (Roulette) [-A]
1972-10-22 Chuck Berry: Eternal Rock and Roller: Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry on Mercury
1972-10-27 caps
1972-10-29 article: Randy Newman
1972-10-?? Rick(y) Nelson: How to Change Your Name
1972-11-12 article: Helen Reddy
1972-11-14 caps
1972-11-19 2 caps
1972-11-26 article: Johnny Nash
1972-11-29 caps
1972-11-?? Carole King: Five Million Friends
1972-11-?? James Taylor
1972-11-?? Cat Stevens
1972-12-03 Growing Up Grim With Mott the Hoople: Pt. 1
1972-12-10 Growing Up Grim With Mott the Hoople: Pt. 2
1972-12-17 Gift LPs: The Gospel Sound Volume II, Sonny Boy Williamson: This Is My Story, Otis Spann: Walking the Blues, Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary Salute, Fats Domino: Legendary Masters, Otis Redding: The Best of Otis Redding, The Kinks: The Kink Kronikles, Nuggets, Jackson 5: Greatest Hits, Phil Spector's Christmas Album
1972-12-18 More Best-ofs: Oldies But Not Always Goodies: Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, Bo Diddley: Got My Own Bag of Tricks, Ricky Nelson: Legendary Masters, The 4 Seasons: Edizione d'Oro, Chi-Lites: Greatest Hits, Stevie Wonder: Greatest Hits Volume 2, Cream: Heavy Cream, The Best of Delaney & Bonnie, CCR: all six albums, Butterfield Blues Band: Golden Butter, Them: Featuring Van Morrison, Stampfel & Weber (Fantasy double)
1972-12-19 caps
1972-12-21 article: New York Dolls
1972-12-24 Best Singles of 1972
1972-12-26 Rock & Roll Fan on a Blues Binge: Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters: Sail On, The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, Chester Burnette A.K.A. Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim: Bad Luck and Other Troubles, Roy Brown: Hard Luck Blues (King), Chicago Blues Anthology, Lightnin' Hopkins (Fantasy), Rev. Gary Davis (Fantasy), Bukka White: Parchman Farm, Blind Willie McTell: Atlanta 12 String (Atlantic), Johnny Shines: Blue Horizon, Mississippi John Hurt: Last Sessions (Vanguard)
1973-01-05 6 caps
1973-01-07 Joni Mitchell: Joni Mitchell, 1 cap: Paul Winter/Winter Consort: Icarus (Epic) [B]
1973-01-14 article: black music, 2 caps
1973-01-21 article: Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, 2 caps
1973-01-22 article: Neil Young live
1973-01-28 Carly Simon as Mistress of Schlock: Carly Simon, 1 cap
1973-02-04 Little Stevie Grows Up: Stevie Wonder, 2 caps
1973-02-05 caps
1973-02-11 article: Dusty Springfield, 1 cap
1973-02-14 7 caps: Leon Thomas: The Blues and the Soulful Truth (Flying Dutchman) [A-]
1973-02-18 In Love With the New York Dolls: 2 caps
1973-02-25 article: Diana Ross
1973-03-05 article: Grammy Awards
1973-03-11 article/CG: Comedy LPs: Lenny Bruce: The Best of (Fantasy) [A], Lenny Bruce: To Is a Preposition (Douglas) [A], National Lampoon: Radio Dinner [A-], George Carlin: Class Clown [A-], Bill Cosby: Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby [A-], Firesign Theatre: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once [A+], Don't Crush That Dwarf [A+], Dear Friends [A]
1973-03-26 caps
1973-04-22 article: Reggae Pt. 1
1973-04-29 article: Reggae Pt. 2
1973-05-04 article: Reggae Pt. 3
1973-05-06 article: Reggae Pt. 4, The Maytals: Greatest Hits (Bebverley's), The Wailers: Soul Rebels (Trojan)
1973-05-13 article: Beatles reunion
1973-05-25 caps
1973-06-10 article: David Bowie, 2 caps
1973-06-12 caps: Roy Brown: Hard Luck Blues (King), "contains most of the seminal hits he recorded for Deluxe between 1948-1954"
1973-06-26 caps
1973-07-01 article: Sly & the Family Stone: Fresh, 1 cap
1973-08-03 caps: Michael Jackson: Music and Me [B], Country Joe McDonald: Paris Sessions [B]
1973-11-21 caps: Coulson Dean McGuiness Flint: Lo and Behold [A+]
1973-11-29 caps
1973-12-10 caps
1973-12-19 caps
1974-01-02 caps
1974-01-08 caps
1974-01-13 article: "when I went on leave in July . . .", top 30 LPs of 1973: #22. John Fahey: After the Ball [A-]
1974-01-20 article: John Prine
1974-01-23 caps: Gato Barbieri: Bolivia [A-]
1974-01-27 article: Bob Dylan: Planet Waves
1974-01-29 article: Bob Dylan live at Nassau Coliseum 1/28/74
1974-02-03 article: Larry Coryell, 2 caps: Keith Jarrett: Fort Yawuh [A-], Billy Cobham: Spectrum [C+]
1974-02-05 caps
1974-02-12 article: David Bromberg: Wanted: Dead or Alive
1974-02-22 caps: David Bromberg: Wanted: Dead or Alive [B+], Soft Machine: 7 [C]
1974-03-03 article: comedy: The Credibility Gap: A Great Gift Idea, Woodshtick
1974-03-17 article: Aretha Franklin, 2 caps
1974-04-07 article: Frank Sinatra
1974-04-18 caps: Charlie Rich: Fully Realized, Charlie Rich: Tomorrow Night, both "highly recommended"
1974-05-03 caps
1974-05-05 article: New York Dolls
1974-05-26 article: Elton John, 1 cap
1974-06-06 caps
1974-06-09 article: The Who, 2 caps
1974-06-16 article: Al Green
1974-07-07 article: Bob Dylan: Before the Flood, 2 caps
1974-07-30 article: Eric Clapton
1974-08-02 caps
1974-08-04 article: Neil Young: On the Beach

New York Times

DateTitle/Notes
1969-06-08 The Byrds Have Flown--But Not Far: The Byrds
1969-06-22 Wholly and Solely About Soul: Marvin Gaye, Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson's Soulshake, Boy Meets Girl, Delaney & Bonnie
1969-07-20 Are the 'Blind' Keeping Faith: Blind Faith
1969-07-27 The Grateful Dead Are Rising Again: The Grateful Dead
1969-08-17 A Man as Good as Janis: José Feliciano, Three Dog Night, Joe Cocker
1969-10-26 Two for the Young: Barbra Streisand, Mary Hopkin
1970-01-18 Who Makes Singers Great?: Norman Greenbaum, Lorraine Ellison, Ella Fitzgerald
1971-06-27 book review: Bob Dylan: Tarantula
1971-10-31 Lumpenhippies and Their Guru: book review: Ed Sanders, The Family

Popular Photography

DateTitle/Notes
1967-01 Filmotheques: photographs by Dick Weiss

Oui

DateTitle/Notes
1973-06 Rich, Black, & Satisfying--Consumer Guide to Coffee: [with Carola Dibbell]
1974-05 The Loving Spoonful--A Consumer Guide to America's Yogurts: [with Carola Dibbell]
1974-09 Living Without the Beatles
Singing the White Suburban Blues: Elliott Murphy: Aquashow

Ramparts

DateTitle/Notes
1968-06-15 Godard: Master of the Clean Home Movie: Jean-Luc Godard: La Chinoise

Rolling Stone

DateTitle/Notes
1968-07-06 review: John Fred and His Playboy Band: Judy in Disguise With Glasses

Show

DateTitle/Notes
1970-01 Toronto Rock & Roll Revival

Stereo Review

DateTitle/Notes
1969-03 A Short and Happy History of Rock

Other

DateTitle/Notes
1969-??-?? Rock Lyrics Are Poetry (Maybe): in Jonathan Eisen, Ed., The Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Culture Revolution, Random House
1971-??-?? Soul Is Selling: in Frederic Rissover and David C. Birch, eds., Mass Media and the Popular Arts, McGraw-Hill
1973-??-?? Any Old Way You Choose It: Penguin Books. Including: A Counter in Search of a Culture, Rock & Roll &, Leaders and Parking Meters, Weird Scenes After the Gold Rush, What Ever Happened to Creedence Clearwater Revival?, and revised versions of Consumer Guide (1), Consumer Guide (16), and Consumer Guide (31)
1974-??-?? Rock Theater


Bibliography Notes 1975-1979