In 1966, a Swarthmore College student named Paul Williams launched the world’s first serious rock ‘n’ roll magazine. Crawdaddy preceded both Rolling Stone and Creem, providing a fertile training ground for several legendary rock journalists-including Jon Landau, Sandy Pearlman, Richard Meltzer and Peter Knobler-and proving that readers were hungry for rock music to get the intelligent analysis it deserved. You can find the archives of the earliest issues of Crawdaddy exclusively at Paste, where we seek to continue the tradition Williams started all those years ago. And you can purchase back issues of Crawdaddy here.
Crawdaddy
- Paul Williams on the Founding of America's First Rock Magazine By Paul Williams March 29, 2013
- Sly and the Family Stone By David Henderson September 1, 1968
- And Janis Joplin By Samuel R. Delany September 1, 1968
- Oh Caroline: The Doors in Concert By Kris Weintraub June 1, 1968
- Tom Rush - The Circle Game By David G. Hartwell June 1, 1968
- The Way We Are Today: Earth Opera and Joni Mitchell By Paul Williams June 1, 1968
- Jimi Hendrix and Live Things By Michael Rosenbaum March 1, 1968
- What Goes On: Record Business '68 By Paul Williams March 1, 1968
- Hank Ballard Revisited By Jim Payne November 1, 1967
- Otis Redding By Jon Landau November 1, 1967
- The State of the Beatles By Don McNeill September 1, 1967
- What Goes On: The Doors By Paul Williams September 1, 1967
- Jimi Hendrix & Pythagoras the Cave Painter By Richard Meltzer September 1, 1967
- What Goes On: Stevie Winwood, The Beatles By Paul Williams July 1, 1967
- What Goes On: Procol Harum, Otis Redding, Carl Wilson By Paul Williams June 1, 1967
- Rothschild Speaks: Interview with the Doors' Producer By Paul Williams June 1, 1967
- Blues Breakers and Fresh Cream By Jon Landau June 1, 1967
- The Who - Happy Jack By Jon Landau June 1, 1967
- The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday By Sandy Pearlman June 1, 1967
- The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco By Paul Williams June 1, 1967
- The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons By Jon Landau May 1, 1967
- Junior Wells - It's My Life, Baby! By Tony Glover May 1, 1967
- The Stones, the Beatles, and Spyder Turner’s Raunch Epistemology By Richard Meltzer May 1, 1967
- Rock is Rock: A Discussion of a Doors Song By Paul Williams May 1, 1967
- Buffalo Springfield By Paul Williams February 1, 1967
- Live! The Four Tops and The Rolling Stones By Sandy Pearlman February 1, 1967
- The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul By Edmund O. Ward February 1, 1967
- What Goes On: The Beatles Break Up By Paul Williams February 1, 1967
- The Aesthetics of Rock By Richard Meltzer February 1, 1967
- What Goes On: The Moody Blues, The Troggs, Mississppi John Hurt By Paul Williams December 1, 1966
- Patterns and Sounds: The Uses of Raga in Rock By Sandy Pearlman December 1, 1966
- The Remains By Jon Landau December 1, 1966
- Today! Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt By Peter Guralnick December 1, 1966
- Blues ’66, Part Two: John Lee Hooker and the Butterfield Blues Band By Paul Williams October 20, 1966
- San Francisco Bay Rock By Gene Sculatti October 20, 1966
- East-West: The Butterfield Blues Band By Jon Landau October 20, 1966
- What Goes On: Rock in Mongolia By Paul Williams September 1, 1966
- The Byrds - Fifth Dimension By Jon Landau September 1, 1966
- The Young Rascals By Jon Landau September 1, 1966
- The Animals - Animalization By Jon Landau September 1, 1966
- Blues ’66, Part One By Paul Williams September 1, 1966
- Tim Hardin - 1 By Dick Waterman September 1, 1966
- Along Comes Maybe: Taking Rock 'n' Roll Seriously By Paul Williams July 1, 1966
- Understanding Dylan By Paul Williams July 1, 1966
- Some Reflections on Rock Guitar in the Sixties By Michael Kac July 1, 1966
- The New Sounds: The Mamas and the Papas, The Blues Project, Love By Paul Williams July 1, 1966
- What Goes On: Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, The Zombies By Paul Williams June 1, 1966
- Folk, Rock, & Other Four-Letter Words By Paul Williams March 1, 1966
- Your Own True Name: Songwriting in the ’60s By Richard Farina March 1, 1966
- “Daydream” - The Lovin’ Spoonful By Paul Williams March 1, 1966
- The Beatles' "Nowhere Man" & The Everly Brothers' "Lovey Kravezit" By Chris Brown March 1, 1966
- Listen People: Readable Rock 'n' Roll Criticism By Paul Williams February 1, 1966
- Slim Harpo - “Baby Scratch My Back” By Paul Williams February 1, 1966
- Three Short Reviews: Carolyn Hester, Judy Collins, The Byrds By Paul Williams January 30, 1966
- Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence By Paul Williams January 30, 1966
- Get Off of My Cloud! By Paul Williams January 30, 1966