Crawdaddy January 1967

Crawdaddy May 1967

The founder of Crawdaddy! described his magazine as the first to take “rock and roll seriously.”

Crawdaddy! was created at Swarthmore College in 1966 by student Paul Williams.
The first issue contained his own writings of music criticism.
He mimographed the pages and distributed them at school.
Soon after, he recruited other writers to help fill the pages.

The first two photos are from the Crawdaddy’s early years.

The issue below was published after Williams left the magazine, so he could concentrate on writing books.

Crawdaddy June 1969