He earned credibility with that washboard voice, the Detroit hardscrabble image, the callback to roots rock, and some decent storytelling. “Night Moves” is a high-quality eulogy for ebbing hormones.

There was no such thing as Classic Rock in 1976 — the phrase, and the radio format it inspired, wouldn't come into common usage until the mid-1980s. But there was already some notion of a rock and ...

Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Professor ...