Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Years - Softcover

Praise for Sid Griffin's other book in this series, "Million Dollar Bash" "If you don't have the bootlegs in full already, Griffin's sharp, witty analysis and articulate passion will get you hunting." "Rolling Stone" "Griffin tells a thorough, entertaining tale in a style that's part conversation, part journalism, part heroically detailed liner-note." "Mojo" "A working musician's sensibility is just what's been needed to bring clarity to this much-mythologized musical encounter." "American Songwriter" "Page-turning stuff." "Dirty Linen" "Admirably forensic detail." "Q" "300+ pages of densely-researched and intelligently opinionated Basement Tape unravelling." "Shindig!" """"""""""""

In fall 1975 and spring 1976 Bob Dylan led a travelling retinue of musicians around America on the two legs of the Rolling Thunder tour. Along for the ride were Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, David Blue, Kinky Friedman, T-Bone Burnett, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Sheppard, Mick Ronson and dozens more musicians, friends, family and hangers-on. The circus was documented in the film "Renaldo and Clara", the live album "Hard Rain" and a TV concert special of the same name, while in between the two legs of the tour Dylan released the classic Desire album. It is this period of heightened creativity and personal drama that Dylan authority, author and musician Sid Griffin, examines in "Shelter From The Storm".