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Video/Audio: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez Sing ‘Never Let Me Go’ From ‘Renaldo & Clara’

Beginning in 1975, Bob Dylan and a superstar troupe of folk and rock musicians hit the road as the Rolling Thunder Review. As the tour progressed a camera crew filmed some of the concerts as well as fictional scenarios that Dylan dreamed up, and real off-stage events.

One of my favorite performances from the tour (included in “Renaldo & Clara”) is the Dylan and Joan Baez version of Johnny Ace’s 1954 R&B hit, “Never Let Me Go” (written by Joseph Scott).

Video clip from “Renaldo & Clara”:

Full song:

“Never Let Me Go”:

Never Let Me Go (Renaldo & Clara) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

Another version from the Rolling Thunder Review tour:

Never Let Me Go by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

And another:

Bob Dylan – Tell It Like It Is 11-11-75 – 07 – never let me go by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

Johnny Ace’s version:

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Video: Bob Dylan & Rolling Thunder Review – ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,’ ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ & ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ – 1976

The other day I posted a huge chunk of Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Review.

Today I’ve got some more clips.

Some of these are from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 23, 1976.

Others are from other dates on the Rolling Thunder Review tour.

“Mozambique”:

“The Times They Are A-Changing”:

“Knocking On Heaven’s Door”:

“Mr. Tambourine Man”:

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Video: Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Review, 1975-76 – ‘Just Like A Woman,’ ‘Blowin’ In The Wind,’ ‘One Too Many Mornings’ & Many More

I believe these first three clips are from the Rolling Thunder Review show at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 23, 1976.

This is a moving and beautiful version of “Just Like A Woman” with Scarlet Rivera on violin.

“Just Like A Woman”:

“Isis”:

“Blowin’ In The Wind”:

“I Don’t Believe You,” War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, MA, USA, October 31, 1975:

Here are a bunch of songs recorded during the tour including “Maggie’s Farm,” “One Too Many Mornings,” “You’re A Big Girl Now” and plenty more.

And here’s 50+ minutes from the April 22, 1976 show at the Starlight Ballroom in Clearwater Florida:

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Watch Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review, Clearwater, FL – April 22, 1976 – ‘Just Like A Woman,’ ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ & More

These videos are from a rejected TV special that was shot at the Starlight Ballroom of the Biltmore hotel in Clearwater, Florida on April 22, 1976 during Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review tour.

Here’s nearly an hour of the Rolling Thunder Review:

And some individual songs:

Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”:

Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn, “Knocking On Heaven’s Door”:

Bob Dylan, “Just Like A Woman”:

Bob Dylan, “Isis”:

Bob Dylan, “Like A Rolling Stone”:

Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin'”:

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, “Blowin’ In The Wind”:

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine”:

Joan Baez, “Diamonds and Rust”:

Bob Dylan and Bobby Neuwirth, “When I Paint My Masterpiece”:

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Audio: Bob Dylan & Rolling Thunder Revue Play ‘You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go’

On May 16, 1976 the Rolling Thunder Revue played the Tarrant County Convention Center Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

Here they perform “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”:

Plus here’s Dylan and Joan Baez singing “I Shall Be Released” at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, on Dec. 1, 1975:

I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“Wild Mountain Thyme” with Joan Baez from the Dec. 2, 1875 show at the Maple Leaf Gardens:

Wild Mountain Thyme (trad.) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

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Audio: Bob Dylan & Joan Baez on Rolling Thunder Revue Sing ‘Never Let Me Go’ & More

Photo via the Diamonds & Rust blog.

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on the Rolling Thunder Revue sing the Johnny Ace song (written by Joseph Scott), “Never Let Me Go.”

It’s really beautiful.

Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, on Dec. 1, 1975.

“Never Let Me Go”:

Never Let Me Go (Joe C. Scott) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“Merle Travis’ “Dark As A Dungeon”:

Dark As A Dungeon (Merle Travis) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

Plus a cool version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece”:

When I Paint My Masterpiece by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

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Audio: Bob Dylan 1976 S.I.R. Rehearsal Part 2 – ‘Positively 4th Street’

Photo via Vanity Fair. Photo by the great photographer Ken Regan.

The other day I posted some recordings from Bob Dylan’s rehearsal at S.I.R. studios in L.A. on January 23, 1976, which took place prior to a Rolling Thunder Revue appearance at the Troubadour.

Since then this recording of “Positively 4th Street” from those same rehearsals showed up on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Audio: Journey Back to 1975 & Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review — Hour Plus

This Rolling Thunder Review show, which took place at the War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, MA, October 31, 1975, kicks off with a terrific version of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” that has the feel of Basement Tapes Dylan and the Band.

This is a fantastic set with Dylan in great voice. I’ve included a couple of videos below the audio, just so you can get a little of the vibe of this musical caravan.

Info courtesy of BOBFAN.

0. When I Paint My Masterpiece !
* It Ain’t Me, Babe (missing from circulating tape)
* A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (missing from circulating tape)
1. Romance In Durango !
2. Isis !
* The Times They Are A-Changin’ [Dylan/Baez] (missing from circulating tape)
3. Never Let Me Go [Dylan/Baez] !
4. Mama, You Been On My Mind [Dylan/Baez] !
* I Shall Be Released [Dylan/Baez] (missing from circulating tape)
5. Diamonds And Rust (Joan Baez) !
* Mary Hamilton (Joan Baez) (missing from circulating tape)
* Love Song To A Stranger (Joan Baez) (missing from circulating tape)
6. Oh Happy Day (Joan Baez)
7. Please Come To Boston (Joan Baez) (one-minute fragment)
8. Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
9. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)
10. I Don’t Believe You !
11. Hurricane !
12. Oh Sister !
13. One More Cup Of Coffee !
14. Sara !
15. Just Like A Woman
16. This Land Is Your Land [Revue]

! indicates tracks from the recently-surfaced tape,

Thanks BOBFAN!

“Tangled Up In Blue/Isis”:

“Romance In Durango”:

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