Bob Dylan: New Orleans 1976 (Master Soundboard) FLAC

Dylan fans - you WILL want this one

Friends And Other Strangers
Released(2008)
Cue, Log, m3u, md5, st5, ffp
complete Artwork 300 dpi
The Soundboard Master Tapes (TSMT-001/002)
Info:
3400
The Warehouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
3 May 1976‚ Evening

Rolling Thunder Revue 2 concert #14.

Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
Scarlet Rivera (violin)
T-bone J. Henry Burnette (guitar & piano)
Steven Soles (guitar)
Mick Ronson (guitar)
Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
Rob Stoner (bass)
Howie Wyeth (drums)
Gary Burke (congas)

Bob Dylan and the RTR played two shows at the Warehouse in New Orleans on May 3rd, 1976. The evening show is sourced from an excellent quality soundboard recording. The sound quality on this is a considerable improvement over all previous release and can be considered definitive. All of the Dylan performances are present and a selection of the other numbers fill out the balance of the set with 'Isis' being the biggest cut in the tape, eliminating the final several minutes of the song.
The first two Dylan songs are played alone accompanying himself on acoustic guitar. 'Love Minus Zero / No Limit' makes its only appearance on the second RTR tour. Dylan‚'s work with Guam begins with the duet 'Vincent Van Gogh' with Bob Neuwirth which is followed by the intense 'Maggie's Farm' played during this tour. Dylan exaggerates the hillbilly accent during the chorus lending a counterpoint of irony to the song, but he sings so intensely he has to pause before the final 'I ain‚'t gonna work on Maggie‚'s farm no more' and clears his throat. Two songs from Desire follow. 'Isis' is played with a heavy rock beat and is unfortunately cut after four and a half minutes, but that is a flaw on the source tape and there is nothing that can be done (unless an audience tape were to surface).
The final Dylan set takes up the bulk of disc two beginning with 'Shelter From The Storm.' The acoustic arrangement from Blood On The Tracks was transformed into an electric, fuzz laden stomper with Dylan shouting out the lyrics. The vulnerable desire for salvation is changed into a diatribe from one demanding respect wrapped into the hero's hubris. After 'You're A Big Girl Now' the only ever live performance of 'Rita Mae' follows. This Desire outtake, released two years after this show on the rare Masterpieces LP, sounds awesome and one that should have made more live appearances.
The weight of these performances lay in 'Idiot Wind' which effectively replaced 'Hurricane' in the set list for giving purpose to the proceedings. This performance seems to drag as Dylan spits out the lyrics. 'We're gonna go after this song - get a transfusion' are Dylan's words before the final eight minute version of 'Gotta Travel On' where everybody it seems takes a solo.
Friends And Other Strangers is packaged in a gorgeous digipack with many period photos on the artwork and given the sound quality and excellent performance is worth having.

Tracklisting:
Disc One
01 - Dennis Hopper - If
02 - Bob Neuwirth - Battle Of New Orleans
03 - Kinky Friedman - Rock And Roll Across The USA
04 - Kinky Friedman - Dear Abbie
05 - Kinky Friedman - A*hole From El Passo
06 - Bob Dylan - Mr.Tambourine Man
07 - Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero-No Limit
08 - Bob Dylan - Vincent Van Gogh
09 - Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm
10 - Bob Dylan - Mozambique
11 - Bob Dylan - Isis
12 - Roger McGuinn - Jolly Roger
13 - Roger McGuinn - Lover Of The Bayou
14 - Roger McGuinn - Chestnut Mare
15 - Joan Baez - The Night The Drove Old Dixie Down

Disc Two
01 - Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust
02 - Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - Railroad Boy
03 - Bob Dylan & Joan Baez - I Pity The Poor Immigrant
04 - Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
05 - Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
06 - Bob Dylan - You're A Big Girl Now
07 - Bob Dylan - Rita May
08 - Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
09 - Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
10 - Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
11 - Bob Dylan - Gotta Travel On

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