On the Road with Bob Dylan (64 page)

Joan Baez and Mama in the Dreamaway Lounge in
Renaldo and Clara
. (Circuit Films)

Phil Ochs confers with Dylan while Eric Frandsen plays in the background. (Ken Regan/Camera 5)

One of the survivors—Bob Neuwirth in
Renaldo and Clara
. (Circuit Films)

Sunrise ceremony, Newport, Rhode Island; Chief Rolling Thunder (center rear) presiding. (Mary Alfieri)

Dylan and Muhammad Ali backstage at the “Night of the Hurricane.” (Ken Regan/Camera 5)

“Keenky, who’s Keenky?” Kinky Friedman, the Texas Jewboy, and Ratso. (Marcia Resnick)

Allen Ginsberg on the road. (Mary Alfieri)

Ratso. (Bob Gruen)

Excerpts from
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of An Unknown Teaching,
copyright 1949 and renewed 1977 by Tatiana Nagro, are reprinted by permission of Harcourt Inc. The lyrics to “Ride ’Em Jewboy” and “Asshole From El Paso” by Kinky Friedman, both copyright © 1973 by Glaser Publications, Inc., are reprinted by permission of the author. The poem, “Sunrise Ceremony Verse Improvised With Australian Aborigine Song-Sticks at Request of Medicine-Man Rolling Thunder, November 5, 1975” by Allen Ginsberg, copyright © 1977 by Allen Ginsberg, is reprinted by permission of the author’s estate. The lyrics to “On the Rolling Thunder Revue” are reprinted by permission of Roger Cowen. “The Singer” by Tom Pacheco, copyright © 1976 by Chappell & Co., Inc., and Huckleberry Creek Music, is used by permission of the publishers. An excerpt from “Is Dylan Interested in Money? Small Clubs Give Way to Arenas” by Mike Madden is reprinted from
Variety,
November 12, 1975, by permission of the publisher. The lyrics to “Shadows and Light,” copyright © 1975 by Crazy Crow Music (BMI), and “Coyote,” copyright © 1976 by Crazy Crow Music (BMI), both by Joni Mitchell, are reprinted by permission of the publisher. Early versions of “Guerrero” and “Smokey Life” by Leonard Cohen are reprinted with his permission.

[In addition, portions of this book previously appeared in Rolling Stone
.]

Copyright © 1978 by Larry Sloman
Introduction copyright © 2002 by Kinky Friedman

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