7 Rolling Thunder Logbook

You say: “A surreal brain dump from a fly on the wall who wondered how he got there.” @anearful, via Twitter

Playwright and Holy Modal Rounder Shepard was hired to generate an ad hoc film treatment of Dylan’s 1975 tour/ circus. “None of this has to connect,” the singer advised. Ultimately, Dylan would marry the loose screenplay idea with themes from Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants Du Paradis to create the rarely seen Renaldo And Clara. Shepard’s Logbook, interspliced with Ken Regan’s photographs, vividly captures the Felliniesque shenanigans. Shepard’s cool, impressionist prose helped certify the Rolling Thunder Revue’s near-mythic status.