Genius That's Hard To Pin Down

For every good 33 1/3 title, Born In The USA, Sign O The Times, there's one like Miles Marshall Lewis' There's A Riot Goin' On. Something is off in the whole book. The writing is amateurish, as if needing a rewrite, and Lewis doesn't add much to the legacy of the book unless he quote's in long passages the work of Greil Marcus. What does Lewis think of Sly's apocolyptic kiss-off the the 60's? Hard to tell, because Lewis never gets inside Sly's mind. Stone is an odd bird to write about. But Lewis doesn't dig deep enough into the album to keep us interested. Even at less than 150 pages.