Geoffrey Himes

Geoffrey Himes is an American music critic who has written weekly for the Washington Post since 1977.^[1] He also wrote for No Depression as a contributing editor in its first print era in the late 1990s to the early 2000s^[2] and has written for Paste since 2004.^[3] He has written lyrics for songs that have been recorded by multiple artists, including Billy Kemp & the Paradise Rockers and Mojo Filter.^[4] He has won the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers four times (in 2002, 2005, 2014, and 2016).^[5][6][7]

Books

• Born in the U.S.A. (a book about Bruce Springsteen's album of the same name; part of the 33⅓ series) (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005)