by Jeff Burger
Hitler, Adolf, 462
Hoffman, Abbie, 247
Holcomb, Roscoe, 162, 393
Holiday, Billie, 207
Holley, Charles Hardin. See Buddy Holly
Holly, Buddy, 62, 276, 394, 404, 479, 496–497
Hollywood Bowl, 43, 59
Hollywood Palace, 130
Holmes, Odetta. See Odetta
Homer, 379, 424
“Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance” (Henry Thomas), 30
Hooker, John Lee, 15–16, 73, 271
Hooters, the, 324
Hopper, Edward, 471
Horsens Theatre, 425
Hot Press, 270
Hotel de la Ville Inter-Continental, 404
“Hound Dog” (Elvis Presley), 377, 397
House, Eddie James “Son,” Jr., 499, 511
Houston, Cisco, 4–5, 10, 272–273
Houston, Sam, 472
Howl (Allen Ginsberg), 217, 477
Howlin’ Wolf, 15–16, 46, 311, 511
Hudson, Garth, 459
HuffingtonPost.com, 484
Hughes, Karen, 220, 249
Hunter, Robert, 469–471
“Hurricane,” 203, 296
Huskey, Ferlin, 396
Hutton, Timothy, 335
“I and I,” 355, 379
“I Believe in You,” 250
“I Don’t Want to Do It, 293
“I Feel a Change Comin’ On,” 472
“I Have No Regrets” (Edith Piaf), 244
“I Just Want to Make Love to You” (Willie Dixon), 471
“I Love You, Porgy” (George and Ira Gershwin), 75
“I Pity the Poor Immigrant,” 176–177
“I Shall Be Released,” 325
“I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” 184
“I’ll Remember You,” 288
“I’m a Fool to Want You” (Frank Sinatra), 500–501
“I’m Gonna Run to the City of Refuge” (Blind Willie Johnson), 399
I’m Not There, 212
“I’m Ready to Go” (the Stanley Brothers), 425
Iachetta, Michael, 155
Ian & Sylvia, 11, 22, 167, 498
“Idiot Wind,” 357–358, 380
“If You Ever Go to Houston,” 200, 346, 471
“If You See Her, Say Hello,” 346
Imagine: How Creativity Works (Jonah Lehrer), xiii
In Concert, 201–202
“In the Garden,” 332
Incredible String Band, the, 167
Industrial Workers of the World, 54
Infidels, 291–292, 313, 369, 379, 447, 452
Ingle, Rich, 293
Inner Sanctum, 396, 495
Inside Llewyn Davis, 207
Inskeep, Steve, 438
Intercontinental Hotel, 468
“Isis,” 236, 296, 373
Isle of Wight Festival, 188
“It Ain’t Me, Babe,” 30, 399, 451
“It’s All Good,” 473–474
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” 41, 62, 213, 253
“It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” 111, 253, 302–303, 440
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott), 49
Ives, Burl, 184
“Jack Hammer John” (Woody Guthrie), 10
Jackson, Alan, 393, 462
Jackson, Aunt Molly, 160, 272
Jackson, Michael, 279, 324, 326, 330, 457
Jacobs, Marion Walter. See Little Walter
Jagged Edge, 328
Jagger, Mick, 74, 318, 324, 326, 337, 498, 507
James, Billy, 9, 116, 129
James, Harry, 491, 494
James, “Skip” Nehemiah Curtis, 499
Jarrett, Keith, 230
Jason and the Scorchers, 318
“Jeepers Creepers” (Johnny Mercer), 504
Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 207, 397, 499
Jefferson Airplane, 114
Jenkins, Gordon, 492
Jennings, Waylon, 472, 481
Jerome, Jim, 202
Jeter, Derek, 461
Jiménez, Flaco, 474
Joel, Billy, 266, 484
“Joey,” 355, 359, 379
John, Elton, 334, 461, 484, 489, 505
John Birch Society, 71
John Handy Quintet, 114
John Wesley Harding, 156, 164–165, 169, 179, 188, 217, 253, 291, 303, 312, 421
Johnny Cash Show, 188
Johnson, Blind Willie, 399
Johnson, Lonnie, 167, 397–398
Johnson, Robert, 121, 216, 298, 387, 400, 404, 406–407, 468
Johnston, Bob, 174, 476
“Jokerman,” 358, 369
“Jolene,” 475
Jones, Bessy, 10
Jones, Brian, 468
Jones, George, 216
Jones, Malcolm, Jr., 385
Jones, Nora, 471
Jordan, Steve, 329
Joyce, James, 472
Judson, Horace, 57
“Just Like a Woman,” 194, 198–199, 323
“Just Like Tom Thumb Blues,” 322
“Kaddish” (Allen Ginsberg), 237
Kafka, Franz, 165, 423
Kalsoum, Om, 286, 332
“Karma Chameleon” (Culture Club), 333
Kazee, Buell, 167
Keats, John, 290, 364, 375
Kennedy, John F., 171, 268
Kennedy, Robert, 255, 268
Kennedy Center Honors, 215
Kenyon College, 38–41
Kerouac, Jack, 243, 356, 479, 493
Kerr, Barbara, 246
Keys, Alicia, 450, 457
King, B. B., 508
King, Clydie, 255, 313
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 82, 171, 186
King of the Delta Blues Singers (Robert Johnson), 388, 400
Kingston Trio, 4, 7
Kipling, Rudyard, 514
Kiwanis Club, 6
Kleinhans Music Hall, 140
KMEX, 248
Knight, Sonny, 388
Knocked Out Loaded, 316, 321, 325, 328–329
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” 193, 236, 325, 446
Knopfler, Mark, 261, 292, 305
Koerner, John, 223
Koerner, Ray, and Glover, 223
Kooper, Al, 132, 141, 301, 330, 402, 459
Kot, Greg, 384
KQED-TV, 444
Kramer, Daniel, 174
Krewen, Nick, 392
Kristofferson, Kris, 218, 321
Krown, Kevin, 6
Kurosawa, Akira, 221
Kweskin, Jim, 3, 5
“La Bamba” (Ritchie Valens), 301
La Strada, 91
La Vie en Rose, 464
Labelle, Patti, 369
LaFarge, Peter, 7
Laine, Frankie, 276
Lake, Veronica, 465
Landecker, Peter, 295
Langhorne, Bruce, 6
Lanois, Daniel, 263, 416, 459
Late Night with David Letterman, 455
“Laugh at Me” (Sonny Bono), 64
Lauper, Cyndi, 309, 324
Lawrence, Steve, 117
“Lay Lady Lay,” 223
“Lazy Bones” (Johnny Mercer), 504
Lead Belly, 5, 272, 377, 393, 397
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), 478
Ledbetter, Huddie William. See Lead Belly
Ledger, Heath, 212
Lee, Peggy, 308
Lee, Robert E., 219
Leeds Publishing, 8–9, 11
Legion of Honor, 212
Lehrer, Jonah, xiii
Leiber, Jerry, 276
Leitch, Donovan Philips. See Donovan
Lenin, Vladimir, 511
Lennon, John, xiv, 167, 301, 318, 339–340, 356
Lenya, Lotte, 125
“Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,” 467
Les Crane Show, The, 252–253
“Let Me Die in My Footsteps,” 9
Leventhal, Harold, 5
Levy, Jacques, 296, 368, 373
Lewis, Jerry Lee, 488, 497
Library of Congress,
1
“License to Kill,” 285
Lieberson, Goddard, 275–276
Life, 54
“Life and Death of Don White,” 11
“Life Is Hard,” 469–471
Lightfoot, Gordon, 261
Lightnin’ Slim, 495
“Like a Rolling Stone,” 59, 75, 93, 96, 104, 132, 227, 285, 291, 296, 298, 301, 320, 340, 440, 446, 474, 481
Lincoln, Abraham, 81–82
Lindsay, Vachel, 477
Lipscomb, Mance, 2
Liszt, Franz, 503
“Little Brown Dog” (traditional), 63
“Little Drummer Boy” (Katherine Kennicott Davis), 219
Little Richard, 206, 216, 276, 337, 396, 475, 497
Little Sandy Review, 224
Little Walter, 495
Live Aid, 309–310, 318, 323–324
“Lo and Behold,” 195
Loder, Kurt, 263, 337, 384
Lomax, Alan, 10, 184, 208, 213, 337
London Palladium, 515
“Lonesome Day Blues,” 413
“Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The,” 341
“Lonesome Town” (Ricky Nelson), 325
“Lonesome Whistle Blues,” 12–13
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 219
“Lord Edward” (traditional), 63
“Lord Protect My Child,” 313, 455
Los Angeles Free Press, 59
Los Angeles Times, 247, 258, 314, 393, 437
Los Congeros, 273
Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, 486
“Louisiana” (Randy Newman), 363
Love, Mike, 337
Love and Theft, 263, 403–405, 407, 413, 426, 432–435, 448–450, 452, 455, 459–460
“Love Sick,” 506
Lownds, Hans, 330
Lownds, Sara. See Sara Dylan
Lownes, Victor, 330
LSD, 248
Lynch, Kevin, 388
Lynne, Jeff, 458
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 219
Maclean’s, 247
MacMillan Publishers, 105, 183
Macon, Uncle Dave, 495–496
Mademoiselle, 28
Madison Square Garden, 321–323, 326, 331–332, 386
Madonna, 310, 364
“Maggie’s Farm,” 41, 213, 266–267
Magnus, Albertus, 219
Mailer, Norman, 182
Makem, Tommy, 167, 422
“Makes a Long-Time Man Feel Bad,” 22
“Mama, You Been On My Mind,” 293, 344
Manet, Édouard, 452
Mann, Manfred, 104, 262
Mann, Thomas, 514
Mantle, Mickey, 484
Marcus, Greil, 193
Margoulis, Melvin, 143
Marquand, Richard, 328–329
Marrs, Ernie, 10
Martha and the Vandellas, 66
Martin, Dean, 130
Martin, Mary, 402
Marx Bothers, 34
Mason, Dave, 254
Massey Hall, 304
“Masters of War,” 30, 144, 186, 214, 258, 266, 269, 325
“Matchbox” (Carl Perkins), 499
Mathers, Marshall Bruce, III. See Eminem
Mathis, Johnny, 276
Matisse, Henri, 246
May, Billy, 492
Mayfield, Curtis, 236
Maymudes, Victor, 31–39, 132
McAdoo, Bill, 5–6, 10
McCartney, Paul, 469–470, 484
McCarty, Henry “Billy the Kid,” 80
McCoy, Charlie, 304
McCurdy, Ed, 10, 206
McGhee, Brownie, 206
McGraw, Dr. Phil, 453
McGregor, Craig, 247
McGuffey Readers, 473
McGuinn, Roger, 236
McGuire, Barry, 71, 117
McKee, Maria, 335
McKinley’s Bar, 7
McNamara, Robert, 91
McPeake Family, 332
McQueen, Steve, 33
McTell, Blind Willie, 347, 479
Mellencamp, John Cougar, 324, 363, 464
Mellers, Wilfred, 329
Melville, Herman, 217, 234
Memphis Jug Band, 499
Memphis Mafia, 476
Memphis Minnie, 498–499
Mendell, Toni, 4
Mercer, Johnny, 503–504
Mercer, William. See Rosko
Merchant of Venice, The (William Shakespeare), 502
“Mexicali Blues” (the Grateful Dead), 471
Michael, George, 323
Michelangelo, 185
Midnight Cowboy, 273
Miller, Edwin, 27
Miller, Glenn, 494
Miller, Mitch, 276
Mills Brothers, 276
Milton, John, 219
Mingus, Charlie, 74
Minneapolis Star Tribune, xi
Minnelli, Lisa, 142
Mintz, Elliot, 354–355
“Mississippi,” 263, 418, 433
Mississippi River Festival, 190
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville), 217, 233–234, 236
Modern Screen, 47
Modern Times, 448–450, 453, 458–460
Mona Lisa, 234, 457
Monck, Chip, 274–275
Monk, Thelonious, 216
Monroe, Bill, 162, 395, 491, 495
Mood Swings (art show), 485
Moore, James Isaac. See Slim Harpo
Morgan Library, 211
“Morning Dew” (Bonny Dobson), 10
Morrison, Jim, 364
Morrison, Toni, 220, 485
Morrison, Van, 359, 364
Morton, Jelly Roll, 15, 167
“Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine),” 459
“Mountain Jam” (the Allman Brothers Band), 240
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 150, 503
“Mr. Tambourine Man,” 41, 114, 170, 227, 285, 356, 440
MSNBC-TV, 463
MTV, 306, 328
MTV Unplugged, 386, 390
“Mule Train (Frankie Laine), 277, 396
Mule Variations (Tom Waits), 471
Murdoch, Rupert, 466
Murrey, Frederick, 183
Musicares Person of the Year, 511
“Mustang Sally (Ride, Sally, Ride)” (Mack Rice), 377
My Own Love Song, 464–465
“My Wife’s Home Town,” 471
Naked Lunch (William Burroughs), 62
Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (Jacques-Louis David), 481
Napster, 452
Nashville Skyline, 188, 191, 323, 454, 437, 487
National Academy of Songwriters, 354
National Emergency Civil Rights Committee, 28
National Medal of Arts, 212
National Public Radio, 438
NBC, 135–136, 203, 205, 211
Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen), 312
“Neighborhood Bully,” 292
Neil, Fred, 3, 273, 398
Nelson, Prince Rogers. See Prince
Nelson, Ricky, 74, 325
Nelson, Willie, 324, 464, 469, 489
Neuwirth, Bob, 217
Never Ending Tour, 417–418, 448, 461, 466, 488
New Lost City Ramblers, 9, 168, 206, 399
New Musical Express, 247
New Politics Convention, 186
New York Daily News, 155–156
New York Mirror, 28
New York Post “Teen Talk” column, 59
New York Times, 192, 211, 216, 392, 513
“Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk Song Stylist” (Robert Shelton), 4, 71, 207
New York Yankees, the, 483–484
New Yorker, xiii, 29, 69, 215
New Zealand Star, 249
Newman, Paul, 34, 466
Newman, Randy, 280, 363, 375
Newport Folk Festival, 59, 65, 71, 76, 113, 132, 158–159, 203, 212–213, 256, 265, 330, 468, 483
Newsweek, 187, 219, 242, 385, 437, 455
Nicholson, Jack, 324
Niles, John Jacob, 7, 399
No Direction Home (film), 147, 211, 395–403, 447, 456, 466
No Direction Home (Robert Shelton), 329, 428
No War Toys, 45
Nobel Prize, 148, 215, 340, 416–417, 447, 513–516
Norman, Jessye, 215
“Norwegian Wood” (the Beatles), 318
“Nottemun Town” (traditional), 63
“(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such As I” (Elvis Presley), 475
“O Come, All Ye Faithful,” 218
Oakland Coliseum, 255
Obama, Barack, 212, 472
“Obviously Five Believers,” 304, 323
Ocasek, Ric, 335
Ochs, Phil, 97, 100, 144, 161
“October Song” (the Incredible String Band), 167
Odetta, 7
O’Dowd, George Alan. See Boy George
Oh Mercy, 380, 387, 403
“Old Paint” (traditional), 477
Oliver Twist (Chalres Dickens)
Olson, Bobo, 396
Olson, Carla, 305
On the Road (Jack Kerouac), 479
“One More Cup of Coffee,” 236, 354–355, 366, 378
“Only a Pawn in Their Game,” 30, 145
Orbison, Roy, 216, 479
Orlovsky, Peter, 160
Othello (William Shakespeare), 502
“Out on the Road” (Jimmie Rodgers), 397
Outfidels, 358
Ovid, 219
Pacifica Radio, 12
Paine, Tom, 186
Palais des Congrès, 463, 465
Parables and Paradoxes (Franz Kafka), 165
Pareles, Jon, 392, 513
Parker, Charlie “Bird,” 216, 401, 414, 493–494
Parker, Herman “Junior,” 321, 402
“Pastures of Plenty” (Woody Guthrie), 194, 197, 272, 331, 372
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 193, 300, 328
Patton, Charlie, 406, 410, 468, 474, 511
Paxton, Tom, 168, 375–376
PBS-TV, 147, 253
Peckinpah, Sam, 221, 328
Penn, Sean, 316
Pennebaker, D. A., 156–159
Penniman, Richard Wayne. See Little Richard
People, 202
“People” (Barbra Streisand), 355
“People Get Ready” (Curtis Mayfield), 236
Perkins, Carl, 3, 206, 276, 497
“Peter Amberly” (Bonnie Dobson), 25
Peter, Paul, and Mary, 3, 30, 193–194, 197, 213
Petty, Tom, 317, 324, 328, 331, 332, 335, 386, 469
Piaf, Edith, 244, 332, 345, 464
Picasso, Pablo, 246, 362, 452, 466, 481, 510
Pierce, Webb, 496
Planet Waves, 193, 433, 450
Plato, 461
Playboy, xiii, 163, 222, 240–241, 246, 343
Playboy Club, 330
Playboy Enterprises, 330
Plutarch, 482
PM East, 11
“Po’ Boy,” 409, 413
Poe, Edgar Allan, 40, 219, 361, 443, 460
“Poisoned Love,” 285
Pollock, Jackson, 481
“Poor Boy Blues” (traditional), 9
Pop 66, 148–154
Porter, William Sydney. See O. Henry
“Positively 4th Street,” 59, 93, 96, 227, 332, 440
