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  1. Will have to read if just for the Allman Brothers' interview and Rolling Stone piece. Seems like a good, alternate "Almost Famous" source material.

    'Splendor in the Short Grass': Romancing the Stoned

    "[T]he best of the New Journalism is still bracing -- for its flair but also for its earnest presumption and for its access to what people, high and low, were actually up to."

    nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/r

    #AlmostFamous #AllmanBrothers #GroverLewis #Texas

  2. How a Texan journalist detailed 1970s culture ⌨️

    The Texan journalist Grover Lewis had the Dallas Times Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and, yes, Houston Chronicle before landing at Rolling Stone.

    Lewis often butted heads with the founding editor,, Jann Wenner, who he felt was "a brat and a groupie."

    chron.com/culture/article/texa

    #UncleCRizzle #GroverLewis #SplendorInTheShortGrass #Texas @Chron #NewJournalism #RollingStone #OakCliff #Dallas #Literature @RollingStone