The Ink in the Grooves

Introduction: Needles and Pens, by Florence Dore
Part 1: The Inescapable Dylan
1. Let it Rock
2. The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan
3. All the Poets (Musicians on Writing): An Interview with Rhiannon Giddens
4. Chronicles: Volume One (Excerpt)
Part II: Rock 'N' Roll Saved My Life: Writers on Music
5. Banjo Interlude: An Idle Teen's Life Is Saved by Music
6. Tonight We Improvise: From Sag Harbor (Excerpt)
7. Ubu Lives! Remembering Punk and Its Stories
8. By Heart: From Eat the Document (Excerpt)
9. Precious Resource (Rock and Our Generation of Novelists): An Interview with Jonathan Lethem and Dana Spiotta
10. Whack Fol the Daddy-O: How I Learned to Hate Irish Music Slightly Less
Part III: Rock's Literary Identity: Musicians on Literature
11. Dear Dylan: An Interview with Lucinda Williams
12. Iambic Pentameter and the Blues: An Interview with Steve Earle
13. Sir Patrick Rocks! Dragging Ancient Ballads into the Twentieth Century, and What That Can Do to Fragile Young Minds
14. Two Blue Suedes
Part IV: Don't Let Anyone Write Your Story: Musings on Rock as Literature
15. When We All Get to Heaven
16. English as a Second Language
17. Cosmic Ray: How Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman" Transformed the Music of Ray Charles, Allowed Him to Keep His Band, and Created a Musical and Social Revolution
18. Ain't It Always Stephen Stills
Part V: Losses and Erasures
19. Black Cowboys and Jimi Hendrix: An Interview with Dom Flemons
20. Anatomy of a Canned Heat Hit: "Let's Work Together" by Wilbert Harrison
21. John Prine (The Reluctant Genius): An Interview with Dave Jacques, Jason Wilbur, Fats Kaplin, and Pat McLaughlin
22. The Day the Live Concert Returns
23. Unknown Band on a Forgotten Stage
24. Right on Time: An Interview with Amy Helm,