Lanois still hangs out with Billy Bob Thornton, who enlisted him to score 1996’s Sling Blade. “What was special about Sling Blade was the one-on-one relationship I had with Billy,” says Lanois. We’re gonna get the man himself, Bob Dylan, to play the part.’ And that might’ve been the most courageous thing to do, just to say, ‘Lanois got it right,’ and leave well enough alone, and it’s a masterpiece, and let’s throw confetti and bust out the rum.” Lanois has a theory about why Dylan is wearing a hoodie every night onstage on his current tour.