Ready for release on November 6, the audio fully captures the tour alongside a stellar company of backing musicians and guest artists.
The trek kicked off on April 18, 1976 in Lakeland, Florida, and spanned 27 dates – concluding in Salt Lake City on May 25 that year. This is the first time that they have become available for fans to listen to since the shows.
In the release, there is a 3LP set of the complete May 16 Fort Worth show, remixed from the original multi-track tapes, and you can listen to Dylan’s rendition of ‘Going, Going, Gone’ from that show now.
Across the tour, Dylan reunited with Joan Baez to perform a moving set of duets across many dates, including performances of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘Railroad Boy’.
Other members of the band that joined him for that tour included bassist Rob Stoner, violinist Scarlet Rivera, drummer Howie Wyeth, and guitarists Mick Ronson (of David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars), Steven Soles, David Mansfield and T Bone Burnett.
The 39 CD Deluxe set includes 381 tracks – 371 of which have never been released up until now – as well as a booklet with liner notes by Mikal Gilmore and rare photographs.
The 3LP complete Fort Worth show includes 22 tracks, check out the tracklist for that below. Visit here to pre-order.
“‘Idiot Wind’ in NBC’s Hard Rain is among the most rageful and brilliant performances Dylan ever committed before camera,” wrote writer and music journalist Mikal Gilmore in his liner notes essay.
“Yet again, it was for nought. […] One night, one hour only. It never saw any time in a theater. It was never rebroadcast, never issued as a video tape or DVD. It’s gone. All that’s left of the Rolling Thunder movie that was never made but instead played out on stages for four-and-a-half weeks in the spring of 1976, is what you now hold in your hands. Play the music, close your eyes, and watch the story.”
The tracklist for ‘May 16, 1976 – Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Fort Worth, TX’ is:
‘Mr. Tambourine Man’
‘It Ain’t Me, Babe’
‘Vincent van Gogh’
‘Maggie’s Farm’
‘One Too Many Mornings’
‘Mozambique’
‘Isis’
‘Blowin’ in the Wind’
‘Railroad Boy’
‘Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’
‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant’
Disc 33
‘Shelter from the Storm’
‘I Threw It All Away’ *
‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’ *
‘Oh, Sister’ *
‘You’re a Big Girl Now’
‘You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go’
‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ *
‘Going, Going, Gone’
‘Idiot Wind’
‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’
‘Gotta Travel On’
*Previously released on the 1976 Columbia Records album Hard Rain
