Ronee Blakley still remains better known to many as an actor than a singer-songwriter, thanks to screen appearances like her Oscar-nominated turn in “Nashville” and later appearance in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” But she was releasing major-label albums in the early ’70s before a plum Robert Altman part landed her on the cover of Newsweek.
Now she’s returning to music with her first non-soundtrack, non-spoken-word album in years, “Atom Bomb Baby,” out today on digital services.The album has a strong tie-in to another project that brought her back into the limelight last year: Martin Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” documentary about the legendary Bob Dylan ensemble tour on which she was a featured singer, with Dylan and on her own.
Before the tour commenced, Blakley was called into a recording studio for a seat-of-their-pants recording session for an epic Dylan single, “Hurricane,” about the plight of incarcerated boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
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