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Even a recovering Bob Dylan fanatic like me might make it through Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese without catching any of its tricks. Martin Scorsese’s previous Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, is pretty straightforward; this new one, focusing on his 1975 tour, is more playful with the truth.
Toward the end, for example, I realized that one of the film’s talking head commentators looked weirdly familiar. It was actor Michael Murphy, reflecting on a carnival-like 1975 tour Dylan headlined, with Joan Baez,Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, and many others along for the ride.
But Murphy wasn’t talking as a fan: he was speaking as Rep. Jack Tanner, the character he created with director Robert Altman and cartoonist Garry Trudeau for the 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner ’88, and the Sundance Channel’s 2004 follow-up, Tanner on Tanner. It’s not exactly the most widely remembered show in television history—and what “Tanner” was saying didn’t sound all that implausible, making it easy for a viewer to get duped.
So why include something like this in a so-called documentary at all? Because being obsessed with Bob Dylan means analyzing and scrutinizing and holding each note up to the light to find new int
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
The book contains numerous quotations from Dylan's associates and friends which are obviously the product of numerous interviews and in-depth research. The quotations from Bob Dylan himself are brief and scattered and appear to probably be taken from published interviews by others. I suspect that Dylan did not make himself available for an interview with the author, Howard Sounes. Based on some of the Dylan comments included it's unlikely any memories of his could be considered a reliable account of actual history. There are times in his life, particularly early in his career, when he told outright lies about his background. (e.g. He claimed to be an orphan with no parents). Even late in life he kept his second marriage secret, and its existence may