Shelter From The Storm Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Yearsbook (Genuine Jawbone Books)

In the fall of 1975 and spring of 1976 Bob Dylan led a travelling retinue of musicians around America on the two legs of the Rolling Thunder tour. Along for the ride were Joan Baez Roger McGuinn Ramblin' Jack Elliott David Blue Kinky Friedman T-Bone Burnett Allen Ginsberg Sam Sheppard Mick Ronson and dozens more musicians friends family and hangers-on. The circus was documented in the film ÊRenaldo and ClaraÊ the live album ÊHard RainÊ and a TV concert special of the same name while in between the two legs of the tour Dylan released the classic ÊDesireÊ album. It is this period of heightened creativity and personal drama that Dylan-authority author and musician Sid Griffin examines in ÊShelter from the StormÊ. Interviewing many of the tour's participants including musicians Roger McGuinn T-Bone Burnett Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott and tour manager Louie Kemp Griffin mixes meticulous musical analysis into a gripping narrative in this definitive account of the Rolling Thunder years.