John Morthland

American writer he began in music journalism as a record reviewer for Rolling Stone in San Francisco in the summer of 1969, and became an associate editor there later that year. In 1974-5, he was editor of Creem in Detroit. For most of the 1970s and '80s he was a freelance writer who contributed many different publications. In the 1990s, his writing expanded to such other areas as food, travel, baseball and pop and regional culture. From 1984 he lived in Austin, Texas, where he was a writer at large for Texas Monthly and contributed freelance to a variety of other print and online publications. He was the editor of Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader. He sadly died in 2016. https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/john-morthland https://www.discogs.com/artist/673400-John-Morthland