In the fall of 1975, Sam Shepard — the hottest playwright on both sides of the Atlantic — returned to his new home in Northern California one day to find a note waiting for him that said Bob Dylan had called. Having never met him, the 31-year-old Shepard called the phone number on the note and was informed that Dylan wanted him to write the screenplay for the film to be based on his upcoming, star-studded Rolling Thunder tour. Because Shepard, who would later be nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager, America’s most famous test pilot, in The Right Stuff but was so afraid of flying that he had not been inside a plane for the past twelve years, he crossed the country by rail to meet Dylan in New York. As Robert Greenfield recounts in an exclusive excerpt from his new biography of Shepard, True West,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Robert Greenfield
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Scorsese’s new documentary on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue is brilliant — and laced with deliberate, mischievous fiction, from Sharon Stone spinning imaginary tales of hanging out on the tour as a teenager to interview segments with a pretentious documentarian who doesn’t actually exist.
On a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, two people involved in the tour — Byrds founder Roger McGuinn and Rolling Thunder producer Louie Kemp (Dylan’s childhood friend and author of the new book Dylan and Me: 50 Years of Adventures...
On a new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, two people involved in the tour — Byrds founder Roger McGuinn and Rolling Thunder producer Louie Kemp (Dylan’s childhood friend and author of the new book Dylan and Me: 50 Years of Adventures...
- 6/27/2019
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
As fanciful as Martin Scorsese’s new film about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975 is, it doesn’t aim to turn truth into myth nearly as much as the infamous movie Dylan himself made during that period, “Renaldo and Clara” — in which the cast list had Ronee Blakley playing “Mrs. Dylan.” Whatever impish reasons he might have had for doing that, it was undoubtedly a sign of the affection Dylan had for Blakley, who’d come right off a promotional tour for Robert Altman’s “Nashville” onto his tour, with a quick stop to record his single “Hurricane.”
Blakley appears in archival footage and fresh interviews in the Netflix film “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” and she can also be heard singing with Dylan throughout the new 14-cd boxed set “Rolling Thunder: The 1975 Live Recordings.” She’s also known for her solo albums...
Blakley appears in archival footage and fresh interviews in the Netflix film “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” and she can also be heard singing with Dylan throughout the new 14-cd boxed set “Rolling Thunder: The 1975 Live Recordings.” She’s also known for her solo albums...
- 6/14/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Shortly before Bob Dylan took the stage at The Last Waltz in November 1976, he turned to concert promoter Bill Graham and told him he’d only play if Martin Scorsese’s camera crew agreed to film just two of the four songs he planned to play during his set. “I’m going to put Louie on stage next to you and Marty,” Dylan said. “He will tell you when you can film me.”
The “Louie” in reference was Louie Kemp, Dylan’s best friend since they met at Hertzl summer...
The “Louie” in reference was Louie Kemp, Dylan’s best friend since they met at Hertzl summer...
- 6/10/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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