The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine. Its first edition was published in 1979 and its last in 2004. The guide can be seen at Rate Your Music,[1] while a list of albums given a five star rating by the guide can be seen at Rocklist.net.[2][3]
Author
Dave Marsh and John Swenson (Editors)
Random House/Rolling Stone Press
1979
631
789.9/136/4
ML156.4.P6 M37
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Author
Author
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (1999)[edit]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide was first published by Random House in 1999, with John Swenson as the editor.[4]
Reviewing the book for All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey regarded it as a consolidation of the 1985 jazz guide and the blues coverage from other Rolling Stone guides. He recommended it to novices, calling it "a worthy addition to any serious jazz/blues collector's library", even though it was not as comprehensive as The Penguin Guide to Jazz or All Music Guide to Jazz, in his opinion.[5]
Author
Nathan Brackett with Christian Hoard (editors)
More than 10,000 of the best rock, pop, hip-hop and soul records, reviewed and rated
2004
838
Copies of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th editions are available to loan through the Internet Archive and Open Library (registration required):