Hard Rain released: Sept 1, 1976 BUY

The Rolling Thunder Tour, with its Cast Of Thousands, was a logistical mountain to move week in and week out, and it plainly put strains on Dylan's personal life as well. Somewhere in between the buoyant circus of the first leg of the tour (captured gloriously in The Bootleg Series Volume 5) and the stark and even shocking desperado bitterness and venom of the May 1976 performances captured on Hard Rain, things changed character. Throughout these nine performances Dylan sings like a man shaking his fist at the heavens. Not long after these performances, the Rolling Thunder tour stopped rolling. This snapshot of the tour's waning days is a burning, exhilarating, painful, exhausting and extremely powerful document. Maggie's Farm | listen | One Too Many Mornings | listen | Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again | listen | Oh, Sister | listen | Lay, Lady, Lay | listen | Shelter from the Storm | listen | You're a Big Girl Now | listen | I Threw It All Away | listen | Idiot Wind | listen |