First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings'
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue occupies a mythic place in the history of rock tours. Stream a 10-track sampler from the 14-disc box set.
Though it lasted only a few months in 1975 and 1976 and played mostly in tertiary-market venues, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue occupies a mythic place in the history of rock tours.
It was an experiment on a conceptually grand scale to create music on an intimate scale – in spaces far smaller than those Dylan customarily played. It was a wildcat reboot of the rock concert ritual, with shows announced days before they happened, and cameramen darting around), poets (Allen Ginsberg), prophets (), a playwright (Sam Shepard) and a former Spider from Mars (the entrancing guitarist ).
