Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have announced that they will release Bob Dylan‘s ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings‘ on November 6.
The 39 CD box set fully captures all professionally recorded shows from the second leg of Dylan’s legendary 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue tour alongside a stellar company of backing musicians and guest artists, yet another breakthrough in Dylan’s performance career.
A 3-LP set of the complete May 16, 1976 Fort Worth show, remixed from the original multi-track tapes, will be released on the same date. “Going, Going, Gone” from that show is available below.
The second leg of the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour saw Dylan welcome old friends and collaborators to his troupe. Dylan reunited with Joan Baez to perform a moving set of duets across many dates, including performances of “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Railroad Boy.” Dylan’s band included bassist Rob Stoner, violinist Scarlet Rivera, drummer Howie Wyeth, guitarists Mick Ronson, Steven Soles, David Mansfield and T Bone Burnett.
Burnett recalls, “The Rolling Thunder Revue was the first national punk rock tour. It opened a door that led to a furious explosion of new music — The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols and on and on. Dylan had done it again. He is good at walking through doors that no one else even sees, doors that others think are walls.”
The 39 CD Deluxe set includes 381 tracks, 371 of which have never been released, plus a booklet with liner notes by Mikal Gilmore and rare photographs. The 3LP complete Fort Worth show includes 22 tracks.



