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Bob Dylan- HARD RAIN- CD- 1976/2008- Sony Music Entertainment Inc.- 5099703230826- 400 grn
HARD RAIN is a live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on 13th September 1976 by Columbia Records. The album was recorded during the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue. The album was partly recorded on 23rd May 1976, during a concert at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado. The penultimate show of the tour, the concert was also filmed and broadcast by NBC as a one-hour television special in September. HARD RAIN's release coincided with this broadcast. Four tracks from the album were recorded on 16th May 1976 in Fort Worth, Texas. HARD RAIN eventually earned gold certification. HARD RAIN is a snapshot of Bob Dylan's fabled Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling circus that was more notable for its excess and character than the music. HARD RAIN bears this out, being neither as sacrilegious or as exciting as Blood On The Tracks, and never seeming necessary - after all, it arrives just two years after the last live album. There are some new interpretations along the lines of what appeared on Before The Flood, but this lacks kinetic energy, rolling along on its own sense of inevitably. That's not to say there isn't good material tucked away here, as a few of the new versions hit home and Dylan is generally spirited throughout, but ultimately, this remains the province of the dedicated.
PERSONNEL: Bob Dylan - vocals, guitar; Gary Burke - drums; T-Bone Burnett - guitar, piano; David Mansfield - guitar, pedal steel guitar; Scarlet Rivera - strings; Mick Ronson - guitar; Joan Baez, Steven Soles - guitar, background vocals; Rob Stoner - bass, background vocals; Howard Wyeth - drums, piano.
Flat out and running on fumes, Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder collective, at the time of recording for HARD RAIN, had just about scraped through the barrel. They had given all they could – no more was left in the tank. It can be heard here, this live recording from the right tour but plucked at the wrong time. Head back to the start of it and a spirited Dylan, full of belief and confidence in the massive spectacles he and the band were setting out on, are easier to swallow. But HARD RAIN has the run of form expected of a group of musicians who are now tired of one another’s company and all too familiar with the moments of expression or spontaneity. But those wild reactions, the man at the beating heart of this nine-track setlist, is still riotous, enraged and spirited. HARD RAIN has it all – the lightning strikes of a storm put to tape. Doing so sheds some real and mean-spirited light on a tumultuous time for Dylan. He could feel the gears grinding away, and the grand frustrations are, decades from now, his vindication would come. HARD RAIN is an exceptional piece, a turning point caught on tape as one of the finest musicians of any generation finally gives in to being pushed through a system he knows will not suit him. Dylan is flaming, and fiery. It shows itself throughout this piece. A monumental effort from those within to channel his rage, to fuel the fire Dylan finds himself desperately, furiously kindling. It is a slice of necessary history buried below the depths of a shift in tone and focus that Dylan would undertake just a few years later. Head back and hear the voice of reason crushed under the boot of record labels.
Recorded Live During The Second Leg Of The Rolling Thunder Revue On 16th May 1976 In Fort Worth, Texas And On 23rd May 1976 At Hughes Stadium In Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray Includes 12-Page Booklet.
Made In Austria.
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