Foreword: Opening the Vault / Sasha Frere-Jones
Introduction: Wake-Up Call / Nona Willis Aronowits
Before the Flood: Dylan From Cheetah, 1967
1. The World-Class Critic
Two Soul Albums November 1968
Songs of Innocence and Experience February 1970
New Morning: Dylan Revisited December 1970
Breaking the Vinyl Barrier July 1971
Elvis Presley? In Person? July 1972
Bowie's Limitations October 1972
Frankenstein at the Waldorf November 1973
The Rolling Stones Now December 1973
The Best of '74 January 1975
Liner notes from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Diary, 1967-1980 1980
The Velvet: Underground From Greil Marcus's Stranded, 1979
The Decade in Rock Lyrics From Village Voice, January 1980
The New Talking World War III Blues From Salon.com. October 2001
The Big Ones February 1969
East versus West July 1971
Their Generation August 1971
Yesterday's Papers August 1972
Creedence as Therapy September 1972
Believing Bette Midler, Mostly December 1973
Dylan and Fans: Looking Back, Going On February 1974
George and John February 1971
Consumer Revolt September 1971
My Grand Funk Problem-and Ours February 1972
Into the Seventies, for Real December 1972
Roseland Nation October 1973
Sympathy for the Stones July 1975
Creedence Clearwater Revival From Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'H' Roll, 1980
Janis Joplin From Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'H' Roll, 1980
Selections from Don't Turn Your Back on Love Liner Notes to Janis, A Janis Joplin Box Set, 1993
But Now I'm Gonna Move October 1971
Joni Mitchell: Still Traveling March 1973
After the Flood April 1975
Beginning to See the Light From Village Voice, 1977
The Abyss From Village Voice, June 1979
Preface to Barbara O'Dair's Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock 1997
Newport: You Can't Go Down Home Again August 1960
The Scene, 1968 November 1960
Summer of Love in Queens July 1969
Elvis in Las Vegas August 1969
The Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning September 1969
Stranger in a Strange Land December 1969
The Return of the Dolls January 1973
San Francisco Habitat August 1973
The Ordeal of Moby Grape June 1968
The Star, the Sound, and the Scene July 1968
Dylan's Anti-Surprise April 1969
Elliott Murphy's White Middle-Class Blues February 1974
Mott the Hoople: Playing the Loser's Game May 1974
Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent, and the Street Kid Myth November 1974
The Importance of Stevie Wonder December 1974
Introduction to Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock 'n' Roll 1981
Afterword: Raise Your Hand / Daphne Carr / Evie Nagy
