In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album “Desire,” Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break.
A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom.
So in the fall of that year, he launched the Rolling Thunder Revue, a knowingly small-time ramble of a concert tour that was designed, from the outset, to be a kind of antiquated floating carnival of down-home traveling players.
Call it “A Prairie Home Companion” meets Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.The venues wouldn’t be sold-out arenas, like the ones that Dylan had played, along with the Band, to rapturous audiences the year before.
They would be concert halls in places like Plymouth, Mass., and Rochester, N.Y., and Bangor, Maine.
And though the tour was billed on posters as an all-star counterculture revue,
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