When That Rough God Goes Riding (19 page)

Harrison, Billy

Harrison, George

“Have You Seen My Baby?” (Newman)

Hawkins, Ronnie

Hawks

“He Ain’t Give You None” (Morrison)

The Healing Game
(Morrison)

“The Healing Game” (Morrison)

Heaney, Seamus

Heath, Edward

Heider, Wally

“Help Me” (Williamson/Morrison)

Hendrix, Jimi

Henry V
(Shakespeare)

“Here Comes the Night” (Them)

Herrmann, Bernard

Holiday, Billie

Holly, Buddy

Hooker, John Lee

Hopkins, Lightnin’

Hopper, Dennis

How Long Has This Been Going On
(Morrison)

“How Many More Years” (Wolf)

Howlin’ Wolf

Hutchison, Frank

Hyde-Lees, George “Georgie,”

Hymns to the Silence
(Morrison)

Hynde, Chrissie

“I Count the Tears” (Drifters)

“I Get Around” (Beach Boys)

“I Just Want to Make Love to You” (Waters)

“I Wanna Roo You” (Morrison)

“I’ll Take Care of You” (Bland)

Impressions

“In Dreams” (Orbison)

“In the Midnight Hour” (Pickett)

In the Name of the Father
(Sheridan)

Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
(Morrison)

Into the Music
(Morrison)

“Into the Mystic” (Morrison)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(Siegel)

Irish Heartbeat
(Chieftains)

Irving, John

Isley Brothers

“It’s All in the Game” (Dawes/ Sigman/Edwards/Morrison)

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (Dylan/Them)

“...It’s Too Late to Stop Now ...”
(Morrison)

“I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now)” (Redding)

Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, Michael

Jagger, Mick

John, Elton

“John Brown’s Body” (Morrison)

John Wesley Harding
(Dylan)

Johnson, Robert

Jones, Gayl

Jones, Tom

Jordan, Louis

Jordan, Neil

Joy Division

Joyce, James

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)

“Just Like a Woman” (Dylan/Morrison)

Kaufman, Phil

Kay, Connie

Keep It Simple
(Morrison)

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kesey, Ken

KFRC radio, San Francisco, Calif.

Kidd, Johnny, and the Pirates

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kirk, Roland

Kissoon, Katie

Klein, Robert

Knopfler, Mark

Kray Twins

KSAN radio, San Francisco, Calif.

Labes, Jef

Laine, Frankie

Landau, Jon

Langhorne, Bruce

“The Last Laugh” (Knopfler/ Morrison)

The Last Waltz
(Scorsese)

“Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (Price)

Lead Belly

Leigh, Jennifer Jason

Lennon, John

Let It Be
(Beatles)

Lethem, Jonathan

Lewis, Jerry Lee

Lewis, Linda Gail

Lewis, Smiley

Lightcap, Mark

“Like a Rolling Stone” (Dylan)

“Linden Arden Stole the Highlights” (Morrison)

“Listen to the Lion” (Morrison)

The Little Sister
(Chandler)

“Little Wing” (Hendrix)

Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast
(Morrison)

“Lonely Avenue” (Charles)

“The Lonesome Road” (Austin/Morrison)

The Long Black Veil
(Chieftains)

“The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage” (Miracles)

Lydon, John

MacLachan, Kyle

“Madame George” (Morrison)

Marcus, Toni

Maritime Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Marlowe, Philip

Marsh, Dave

Marsh, Phil

Marshall, Brandon

Mayall, John

Mayfield, Curtis

McCabe, Patrick

McCarthy, Kevin

McCormack, John

McCrae, George

McCrumb, Sharyn

McGhee, Brownie

McShann, Jay

Mellers, Wilfred

Mercer, Johnny

Merenstein, Lewis

Mexico City Olympic Games (1968)

Midnight Special

“Midnight Special” (Lead Belly/ Morrison)

Miles, Emma Bell

Miller, Rice

Mimms, Garnett

Miracles

“Misty” (Morrison)

Mitchell, Joni

Monarchs Showband

Moondance
(Morrison)

“Moonshine Whiskey” (Morrison)

Morrison, Mary

Morrison, Shana

“Mystery Train” (Band)

“Mystic Eyes” (Them)

Neeson, Liam

Newman, Randy

Newport Folk Festival

A Night in San Francisco
(Morrison)

Nilsson, Harry

Nixon, Richard

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
(Morrison)

Nolan, Tom

“No Mo’ Freedom” (Thomas)

Norman, Peter

Obama, Barack

O’Connor, Sinéad

“Old, Old Woodstock” (Morrison)

Olympic Project for Human Rights

Once Upon a Time in the West
(Leone)

Orange Juice

Orbison, Roy

Pacific High Studios

Page, Jimmy

Page, Patti

Parker, Alan

Parker, Charlie

Payne, John

“Penitentiary Blues” (Thomas)

Pere Ubu

Piaf, Edith

Pickett, Wilson

“Piece of My Heart” (Erma Franklin)

PiL (Public Image Ltd.)

Planet, Janet

Platania, John

Platters

Pleasure, King

Poetic Champions Compose
(Morrison)

Pop from the Beginning/ Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
(Cohn)

Pop wars

Porter, Cole

Powell, Michael

Presley, Elvis

Price, Lloyd

Rawlings, David

Ray, Johnny

Red, White & Blues
(Figgis)

Redding, Otis

Reed, Lou

Reilly, Sam

Relf, Keith

Richard, Cliff

“Richard Cory” (Robinson/Them)

Richard, Little

Righteous Brothers

Robertson, Robbie

“Robh thu ’sa’ bheinn?” (Mary Morrison)

Robinson, Edward Arlington

“Rock Island Line” (Lead Belly/Donegan)

“Rock Your Baby” (McCrae)

Rodgers, Jimmie

Rodriguez, Chris

Rolling Stone
magazine

Rolling Stones

Rotten, Johnny.
See
Lydon, John

Rubettes

“Ruler of My Heart” (Irma Thomas)

Sailing to Philadelphia
(Morrison)

Sam and Dave

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

San Jose State University, Calif.

Scorsese, Martin

A Sense of Wonder
(Morrison)

Sex Pistols

Shadows of Night

“Shakin’ All Over” (Kidd)

Shattuck, Roger

Shore, Dinah

Shteamer, Hank

Siegel, Don

Sigman, Carl

Simon, Paul

Sisters of Mercy

The Skiffle Sessions
(Morrison/ Donegan)

“Slim Slow Slider” (Morrison)

Smith, Tommie

Smith, Warren, Jr.

“Sometimes We Cry” (Morrison)

Springfield, Dusty

Sputniks

Squeeze

St. Dominic’s Preview
(Morrison)

“St. Dominic’s Preview” (Morrison)

Stansfield, Lisa

“The Star-Spangled Banner,”

“The Story of Them” (Them)

“Starting a New Life” (Morrison)

“Stepping Out Queen” (Morrison)

“Stones in My Passway” (Johnson)

“Stop! In the Name of Love” (Supremes)

Street Legal
(Dylan)

“Sugar Baby Love” (Rubettes)

“Sultans of Swing” (Dire Straits)

Supremes

“Sweet Thing” (Morrison)

“T. B. Sheets” (Morrison)

“Take Me Back” (Morrison/Leigh)

Taylor, James

Tell Me Something
(Morrison)

Terry, Sonny

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta

Thatcher, Margaret

“That’s My Desire” (Laine)

Thomas, David

Thomas, Irma

Thomas, Mattie May

Thunderbolts

Tilbrook, Glenn

To The Lighthouse
(Woolf)

Too Long In Exile
(Morrison)

Toussaint, Allen

Townshend, Pete

Traces on the Appalachians: A History of Serpentine in the Americas
(Dann)

“The Tracks of My Tears” (Miracles)

“Transmission” (Joy Division)

Traum, Happy

“Try a Little Tenderness” (Redding)

Tupelo Honey
(Morrison)

“Tupelo Honey” (Morrison)

“Turn! Turn! Turn!” (Byrds)

“Twist and Shout” (Isley Brothers)

Two Girls Fat and Thin
(Gaitskill)

Valens, Ritchie

Veedon Fleece
(Morrison)

“Waiting Game” (Morrison)

Waters, Muddy

Welch, Gillian

Wells, Junior

“When My Little Girl Is Smiling” (Drifters)

“When That Evening Sun Goes Down” (Morrison)

“When That Rough God Goes Riding” (Morrison)

Whisky A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, Calif.

Whitla Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland

“Who Drove the Red Sports Car” (Morrison)

“Wild Night” (Morrison)

Williams, Big Joe

Williams, Hank

Williamson, John Lee “Sonny Boy”

Williamson, Sonny Boy (Rice Miller)

Wilson, Jackie

Wilson, Murry

Wilson, Tom

“The Windmills of Your Mind” (Dusty Springfield)

Winterland, San Francisco, Calif.

Witherspoon, Jimmy

Wolf, Peter

Wood, John

Woolf, Virginia

“Wooly Bully” (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)

Wordsworth, William

“Workhouse Blues” (Thomas)

The World According to Garp
(Irving)

Wynter, Dana

Yardbirds

Yeats, William Butler

“You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push the River” (Morrison)

Young, Lester

Young, Neil

“You’re My Woman” (Morrison)

GREIL MARCUS
is the author of
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
,
Writings 1968–2010
(PublicAffairs, 2010),
The Shape of Things to Come
,
Like a Rolling Stone
(PublicAffairs, 2010),
The Old Weird America
, and other books; a twentieth-century anniversary edition of his book
Lipstick Traces
was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of
A New Literary History of America
, published in 2009 by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column “Real Life Rock Top 10” appears regularly in
The Believer
. He lives in Berkeley.

PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.