The Rolling Thunder Logbook

Sam Shepard

ISBN 10: 0306813718 / ISBN 13: 9780306813719

Published by Da Capo Press, 2004

About this Item

First Da Capo Press Edition, 2004, w/additional Preface by Sam Shepard (the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's account of Bob Dylan's legendary tour). "The Rolling Thunder Revue was more fun than the law allows. By a long shot. It was a bus full of musicians and singers and painters hurtling through the dead of night, making a movie, writing songs, and playing some of the most incendiary, intense, and inspired rock 'n' roll, before or since." ---from the Foreword by T-Bone Burnett. Photographs by Ken Regan. New, pristine copy.

Seller Inventory # RUB260

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rolling Thunder Logbook
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306813718
• ISBN 13: 9780306813719
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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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.

About the Author

Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than forty-five plays, including Buried Child and True West, as well as the story collections Great Dream of Heaven and Cruising Paradise. He has appeared in more than twenty-five films and received an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard lives in Minnesota.