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Friday, October 15, 2021

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD BOOK CLUB - Chapter Ten

BOOK CLUB IS BACK

Aquarium Drunkard Book Club - Chapter Ten


Rolling Thunder Logbook, Sam Shepard: Though it can be a little tricky to come by, Rolling Thunder Logbook could’ve easily been included as part of the 1975 Live Recordings box set. It’s an essential and mysterious piece of Dylanology, part scrapbook, part fly-on the wall reportage, and perhaps the greatest chronicles of rock’n’roll road life ever put to paper. Documenting the Northeast leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue, Sam Shepard was brought on as a screenwriter for what became the on-tour fantasia Renaldo and Clara.  With his playwright’s eye, Shepard sketches a series of vignettes hopping from one city to another, capturing the pace and excitement of the Revue in all its shambolic glory, while never losing sight of who’s driving the whole caravan forward—Dylan. In Shepard’s hands, Dylan becomes more presence than character, a word on everyone’s lips, a collective ethos subscribed to for better or worse. But that’s what Rolling Thunder was all about, unpacking the great American myth to discover what realities (or lack thereof) it might contain.


Other authors books listings:

Mount Analogue, René Daumal

César Aira: The Divorce (foreword by Patti Smith)

Philip Frobos: Vague Enough To Satisfy 

Prince and the Parade & Sign O ‘The Times Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986Duane Tudahl

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020, Rachel Kushner

No Mean Feet: Typewriter & Rubber Stamp Poems 1969-1987, Jim Johnson




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