Rolling Thunder Logbook

Shepard, Sam

ISBN 10: 0140047506 / ISBN 13: 9780140047509

Published by Penguin Books, New York, 1978

About this Item

This copy is edgeworn on the covers and bit creased and dented. The inner pages have a little dampstaining particularly around the edges of the pages (see pictures for example).

Seller Inventory # MUS038

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rolling Thunder Logbook
• Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140047506
• ISBN 13: 9780140047509
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 633 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

In the autumn of 1975, when "New England is festering with Bicentennial madness," Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling gypsy circus-toured twenty-two cities across the Northeast. Swept up in the motley crew, which included Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and Ramblin' Jack Elliot, was playwright Sam Shepard, ostensibly hired to write, on the spot, the script for a Fellini-esque, surreal movie that would come out of the tour. The script never materialized, but throughout the many moods and moments of his travels with Dylan and his troupe, Shepard kept an impressionistic Rolling Thunder Logbook of life on the road. Illuminated by forty candid photographs by official tour photographer Ken Regan, Shepard's mental-snap shots capture the camaraderie, isolation, head games, and pill-popping mayhem of the tour, providing a window into Dylan's singular talent, enigmatic charisma, and vision of America.

Review

As part of Dylan's on-tour-forever philosophy the book makes a fine diary, impressionistic and factual. --Classic Rock