Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his emotional and intellectual openness to the newest music. He has been doing this ever since he founded Crawdaddy, the magazine of rock, in 1966. His insight into how it feels when we listen to certain performers or certain performances makes a connection between music and reading that is rare and fascinating. Whether it's Bob Dylan or Brian Wilson, Pearl Jam or Nirvana, Paul Williams can reveal something we didn't know we knew when we listened to the music. This is what he invented rock criticism to do, back in the 1960s, and has been doing ever since.
Back to the Miracle Factory is as much fun to read as the music is to listen to.
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