The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
Launched in the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan's The Rolling Thunder Revue flaunted the touring conventions of the time by featuring an eclectic cast of characters and playing small and unusual venues with little advance notice. The shows would often stretch to more than four hours long, generating some of the artist's most dramatic and dynamic on-stage performances ever.
Dylan debuted the new songs he'd written for his forthcoming Desire album (which became one of the most acclaimed and popular in his canon) with a fire and intensity that he had reached ten years earlier with his incendiary tours with musicians who became The Band. He also took wild, interpretative rides through his back catalogue and broke-out some unexpected covers.
Vinyl 1 – Side A:
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
- It Ain't Me, Babe (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA – November 1975)
- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
Vinyl 1 – Side B:
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Romance in Durango (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA – November 1975)
- Isis (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
Vinyl 2 – Side A:
- Mr. Tambourine Man (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Afternoon)
- Simple Twist of Fate (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA – November 1975)
- Blowin' in the Wind (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Mama, You Been on My Mind (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA – November 1975)
Vinyl 2 – Side B:
- I Shall Be Released (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 1975)
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
- Love Minus Zero / No Limit (Live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
- Tangled up in Blue (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
Vinyl 3 – Side A:
- The Water Is Wide (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Oh, Sister (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Hurricane (Live at Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA – November 1975)
Vinyl 3 – Side B:
- One More Cup of Coffee (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Sara (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Afternoon)
- Just Like a Woman (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA – November 21, 1975 – Evening)
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA – November 1975)