Rolling Thunder '75 Day By Day Zine

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. To celebrate the milestone, I put together this little booklet—a show-by-show guide to every performance on Rolling Thunder ’75. The text was largely taken from a series I did for my newsletter, Flagging Down the Double E’s, back in 2020 (the 45th anniversary), though it’s been tweaked and updated for this printed version.

Each entry looks at the venue, the setlist, onstage comments (aka. BobTalk), the many special guests who popped up along the way, concert reviews in the local newspapers, and what Dylan and co. did during the off hours—which, given that they spent so much of the time they weren’t onstage filming scenes for Renaldo and Clara, tended to be quite a bit. Recordings of almost all the tour’s 31 shows circulate, and I recommend listening along as you read.

- Ray Padgett