A lollapalooza of a tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue was divided into two parts across two years and began in 1975, the year after Dylan had returned to touring, headlining with the Band. The idea behind Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” feels equally diffuse. Only one of its songs, “A Simple Twist of Fate,” is i n “Rolling Thunder Revue,” which includes many more from “Desire,” the album he finished before the tour started in Plymouth, Mass. Baez didn’t know who was directing (“Bob would stand in the back of the camera and chuckle to himself”). But she understood the part she played perfectly: “Naturally, I was playing a Mexican whore — the Rolling Thunder women all played whores.”

Source: New York Times June 11, 2019 17:51 UTC