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The piece on Altamount resulted in a longer tenure at Rolling Stone, for whom Lewis would act as associate editor as well as contributor. Though his relationship with the fledgling magazine and its publisher Jann Wenner would eventually become contentious and even litigious, it was here where Lewis flourished, particularly in regard to his writing. Just two examples of his finest work are the pieces “Soldier of the Heart,” and “Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band.” The former concerns the struggles of folk singer Judee Sill, and was published in 1972 (in 1979 she died of a heroin overdose). Almost an extended interview, the piece omits the questions and lets Sill speak the answers (the format of Letters to a Young Poet, say), thereby allowing us to fully wrap ourselves in Sill’s memoir of a hardscrabble childhood, life of substance abuse and prostitution, and, finally, her rebirth as a musician. The clear and convincing portrait Lewis makes of Sill reveals so much more about both the art and personage behind her songs than a hippie-ish music magazine – frequently referred to by readers and detractors as “Rolling Stoned” – should ever have been expected to.

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