
I In 1971, rock critic Robert Palmer set out on assignment for Rolling Stone , to track down the writer's favorite band. This was years before Palmer had penned his iconic tomes on popular music, Deep Blues and Rock & Roll: an Unruly History , but even then the young musicologist and clarinetist had pretty particular taste. The object of his infatuation was a group of musicians who had already caught the eye of Brian Jones and William Burroughs. The later had met the Master Musicians of Joujouka [...]