★★★★★Bob Dylan fans have long had to manage expectations when seeing their hero live. Yet Dylan hit a purple patch in 1975 with The Rolling Thunder Revue. For it he hired Frank Zappa’s old tour bus, donned whiteface and a fedora, and embarked on a carnivalesque tour of North American concert halls with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn and a beagle called Peggy. And, on the evidence here, he was electric throughout. The tour came with its own political cause, a campaign…

Source: The Times June 06, 2019 23:03 UTC