Blog: the velvet rut

A couple weeks ago I picked up a copy of Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island while swimming through the sea of humanity and books that is the Green Valley Book Fair. For those not familiar with Stranded here's the basic premise: Famed rock critic and music writer Greil Marcus approached twenty of his fellow rock critics and asked each of them to write an essay in answer to the following question-- If you found yourself all alone on a deserted island, what one rock album would you take with you? [...]