Page 17 of Sam Shepard's "Rolling Thunder Logbook."
He'd been hired to write dialog for 'Renaldo and Clara" but left the tour after noticing how the musician-actors were improvising their scenes, not memorising his script.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Excerpt from the Rolling Thunder Logbook : Sam Shepherd
Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue - Municipal Auditorium Austin, TX, USA 1976 | so many roads
Bob Dylan - 1976-05-12 - Austin, TX (SBD)
Bob Dylan
and the Rolling Thunder Revue
1976-05-12
Municipal Auditorium
Austin, TX
Soundboard Recording
Guam:01. Good Love Is Hard To Find - Bob Neuwirth02. Hoola Hoop - T Bone Burnett03. Flint Hill Special - David Mansfield04. Too Good To Be Wasted - Rob Stoner05. Madman - Stephen Soles06. Is There Life On Mars - Mick RonsonKinky Friedman:07. Rock & Roll Across The USA08. Dear Abbie09. Sold AmericanBob Dylan:10. Mr. Tambourine Man11. It Ain't Me Babe12. Vincent Van Gogh13. Maggie's FarmRoger McGuinn:14. Turn! Turn! Turn!15. Jolly Roger16. Lover Of The Bayou17. Chestnut MareJoan Baez:18. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man19. El Preso Número Nueve20. One Too Many Mornings21. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down22. Sweeter For Me23. Dancing In The Streets
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez:24. Blowin' In The Wind25. Railroad Boy26. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)27. I Pity The Poor ImmigrantBob Dylan:28. Shelter From The Storm29. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again30. I Want You31. You're A Big Girl Now32. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go33. Oh Sister34. Lay Lady Lay35. Silver Mantis - T Bone Burnett36. Going Going Gone37. Idiot Wind38. Knockin' On Heavens Door - Roger McGuinn & Bob Dylan
Bonus Tracks1976-05-15Gatesville State School For BoysGatesville, TX39. Linda Lu - Bone Burnett40. Look On Yonder Wall (Hand Me Down My Walking Cane) - T Bone Burnett41. Black Crow - Joni Mitchell42. Walls Of Red Wing - Joan Baez43. El Preso Número Nueve - Joan Baez44. Sweeter For Me - Joan Baez
SPEEDY SAYS: "In late 1975, after releasing the album Blood On Tracks earlier in the year, Bob Dylan launched the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Dylan recruited a host of other musicians to join him on this tour, including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Mick Ronson, Kinky Friedman, T Bone Burnett, and Bob Neuwirth. Patti Smith was also invited to be part of the Revue, but politely declined. According to Larry Sloman, who documented the tour, "onstage it was like a carnival. After intermission, the curtain rose to an incredible sight, Bob and Joan, together again after all these years. The tour met with tremendous critical acclaim. For example, Clinton Heylin Wrote "The Rolling Thunder Revue shows remain some of the finest music Dylan ever made with a live band." Them after releasing the album Desire in early 1976, Dylan went back on the road with the Rolling Thunder Review for a series of Spring shows. This soundboard captures the tour in Austin on May 12, 1976, a half century ago today! Note: this one was too big for MirrorCreator so tested a new transfer host."
You're A Big Girl Now - Bob Dylan and The Rolling Thunder Revue - Austin, TX 1976
One of the Highlights from Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue
show at Municipal Auditorium in Austin, TX on May 12, 1976
Bob Dylan "Hard Rain" Rolling Thunder Revue LIVE performance 1975 | Netflix
Lost tape of Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder show in Austin
- Complete soundboard + Bonus tracks
PLEASE NOTE: SPEEDY’S DOWNLOAD OF THIS CONCERT IS WAY BETTER QUALITY THAN ANY OF THE VIDEOS HERE FEATURED ON YOUTUBE BUT WORTH A LOOK I GUESS
Artists, Muses, 'old ladies', wives and girlfriends - Marianne Faithful
Marianne Faithfull, “The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus”, December 11/12, 1968.
There was only ever ONE!
Birthday’s too . . . . IAN DURY
Ian Dury was born in Harrow, Middlesex, on this day in 1942. [Route]
He chose to play the fool in a six-piece band.
Ian reads a Charlie Mingus poem and closes with the Bus Driver’s Prayer
Ian Dury and The Blockheads - What a Waste (Officially!)
Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Billericay Dicky
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Live At Rockpalast 1978
(nearly 1hr 5 minutes of bliss!)
Ian Dury died from colorectal cancer on the 27th March 2000 having been diagnosed as terminal in 1996
We Miss Him!
Ian’s memorial bench in Richmond Park London
“REASON’S TO BE CHEERFUL"
Birthdays: STEVE WINWOOD (78)
Happy 78th birthday to Steve Winwood!
“The great influences were people like B.B. and Freddie King, T-Bone Walker – then ‘Little Hubert,’ Hubert Sumlin,” says Winwood. “Also Buddy Guy and Otis Rush, and we were discovering people like Louisiana Red in the early ’60s. There was a certain camaraderie with everyone who played it. In fact, when I was 16 years old and left school and left home, I went to London, and Eric Clapton, who was three years older than me, kind of took me under his wing – a bit like an older brother. We listened to a lot of stuff; he played me a lot of stuff, I played him some stuff. There were fewer people playing guitar like that then. There was a big excitement about that music. My brother had a band, and in his band he had some guys who were at art college. A lot of the guys at art college were big blues enthusiasts. They used to bring me records to hear all the time, just because they knew I was interested. It was a bit of a clique.”
“Of course, the music business got much more corporate and much more focused on marketing since the late ’60s,” Winwood feels. “Record companies became big business. In the earlier ’60s, you had the main record companies, but the companies who were putting out the more interesting stuff were more like what we’d call boutique labels today – with people who were kind of like playboy mavericks who were music lovers. I think you could even go back to Atlantic Records and Ahmet Ertegun, which were also in the same ilk. It was much more about the music than the marketing and promotion.”
Interview By Dan Forte / Vintage Guitar
Photo: Fin Costello
Steve Winwood - Now The Green Blade Riseth
a message from Steve (five years ago) for the National Music Council of the United States
‘Thin Line Between Love and Hate' : Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa (RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE) Gary Lucas
Good article by Mike Barnes about Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band) and Frank Zappa in the new issue of Record Collector Magazine (UK) — Gary says "Mike generous included me in the telling of the tale—thanks Mike! … “its actually a lynchpin comment I felt that the whole relationship hangs on that they ended up at least speaking and friendly, as best friendsand closest colleaguessometimes will Very important note I thought
Great piece from the authority and legendary writer Mike Barnes . . . . . .
my edit!
somebody posted this image online and questioned it's veracity and accusing it of being AI (why would you?) solely because they couldn't recognise Frank’s guitar here . . . . . I mean I geddit but . . . . . le'ts check . . . . more later
Monday, May 11, 2026
On Raglan Road - Sinéad O'Connor with Donal Lunny & Band, 1996
I might sign off the day with this wonderful performance of an Irish classic song in tribute to Donal Lunny
On Raglan Road - Sinéad O'Connor with Donal Lunny & Band, 1996
Sinéad O'Connor performs 'On Raglan Road'.
A special episode of The Late Late Show is dedicated to musician Donal Lunny, former member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, amongst others.
Among the musicians gathered to celebrate his work are Davy Spillane, Christy Moore, Máire Brennan, Sinéad O'Connor, Brendan Power, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Mark Atkins, Sharon Shannon, Brian Kennedy, Shara Nelson, and Óisin Lunny.
One of the many guests on the show paying tribute to Donal Lunny is Sinéad O'Connor, who recently gave birth to her daughter, Brigidine Roisin.
"We're delighted to welcome Sinéad O'Connor.”
We are all the poorer for her tragic and unfortunate death
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