Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue (1975-1976)

The Rolling Thunder Revue was a concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with a traveling caravan of musicians, including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Bob Neuwirth assembled the backing musicians, including T-Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, David Mansfield, Steven Soles, and from the Desire sessions, violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, and drummer Howie Wyeth. The tour included 57 concerts in two legs—the first in the American northeast and Canada in the fall of 1975, and the second in the American south and southwest in the spring of 1976.

The prevailing theory of why Dylan chose "Rolling Thunder" as the tour name was that it was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that the tour was named after Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. aerial bombardment campaign conducted during the Vietnam War. According to Dylan, there was a simpler explanation for the name: "I was just sitting outside my house one day thinking about a name for this tour, when all of a sudden, I looked into the sky and I heard a boom! Then, boom, boom, boom, boom, rolling from west to east. So I figured that should be the name."

The release of Dylan's album Desire in January 1976 fell between the two legs of the tour.

The tour was thoroughly documented through film, sound recording, and in print…

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Tracklist DVD1:

Hard Rain US TV Broadcast version, Fort Collins, May 23, 1976:

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Blowin' in the Wind
Railroad Boy
Deportee
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
Shelter From the Storm
Maggie's Farm
One Too Many Mornings
Mozambique
Idiot Wind
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (snippet during end credits)

Rejected TV Special, Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, April 22, 1976:

Mr. Tambourine Man
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Blowin' in the Wind
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Diamonds and Rust
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Like a Rolling Stone
Isis
Just Like a Woman
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Lay Lady Lay


Tracklist DVD2:

Renaldo And Clara unreleased concert footage, November/December 1975:

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
It Ain't Me Babe
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
It Takes a Lot to Laugh
Romance in Durango
One More Cup of Coffee
Sara
Never Let Me Go
Just Like a Woman
Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Japanese TV version, Fort Collins, May 23, 1976:

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Blowin' in the Wind
Deportee
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
Shelter From the Storm
Maggie's Farm
One Too Many Mornings
Mozambique
Idiot Wind
Knockin' on Heaven's Door

World Of John Hammond, WTTW-TV, Chicago, September 10, 1975:

Hurricane
Simple Twist of Fate
Oh Sister







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