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The Rolling Thunder Revue was Bob Dylan’s traveling 1975–1976 concert project, bringing together performers including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Rob Stoner, Scarlet Rivera, and other musicians and guests.
Its shows mixed forceful reworkings of Dylan songs with improvisation, theatrical presentation, communal singalongs, and an unusually fluid ensemble. The tour’s legacy includes recordings such as Hard Rain and later live collections, as well as the film Renaldo & Clara and Martin Scorsese’s documentary reinterpretation. Its two phases differed in atmosphere, repertoire, production, and venue scale, but together form a single landmark episode in Dylan’s live career.
Its analysis of Hard Rain supplies a distinct recorded example of the revue’s darker, more personal 1976 performance style.
Glide Magazine / Doug Collette
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Key Issues
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The 1976 archive remains the dominant lens
The forthcoming 39-CD release anchors current understanding of the second leg with 381 tracks, including 371 previously unreleased performances, and coverage of nearly the entire 27-date run. Complete Fort Collins and Fort Worth recordings provide unusually detailed reference points for interpreting the tour, now alongside the substantial archival record of the 1975 leg.
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The second leg is defined by deliberate musical reinvention
Accounts of 1976 emphasize solo-acoustic openings, numerous live debuts, rotating song choices, selective returns to 1975 material, and darker, tighter arrangements. The second leg therefore stands as a distinct musical reset rather than a straightforward continuation of the first.
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Expanded coverage still leaves archival blind spots
The new release substantially broadens access to the second leg but does not create a continuous record of every date. Salt Lake City remains a notable gap, while complete Fort Collins and Fort Worth recordings function as specific anchor performances rather than evidence of uniform tour-wide documentation.
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The revue remains an ensemble-driven theatrical project
Coverage continues to define Rolling Thunder as a Dylan-led ensemble rather than a conventional solo tour. Rotating collaborators, communal and theatrical presentation, improvisational interaction, and the tension between intimacy and larger-scale production remain central to the project's identity.
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27 dates
spring 1976 tour run
Rolling Thunder Revue
“The set documents the 27-date spring 1976 run, which began April 18 in Lakeland, Florida, and concluded May 25 in Salt Lake City. Nearly every show is represented, allowing listeners to follow how Dylan’s performances developed across the tour.”
Yahoo
371 tracks
previously unreleased tracks
“Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog division, will release Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings on November 6. The 39-CD deluxe box set documents the second leg of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour and includes 381 tracks, 371 of them previously unreleased, along with liner notes by Mikal Gilmore and rare photographs.”
BroadwayWorld
381 tracks
tracks included in the box set
“Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog division, will release Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings on November 6. The 39-CD deluxe box set documents the second leg of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour and includes 381 tracks, 371 of them previously unreleased, along with liner notes by Mikal Gilmore and rare photographs.”
BroadwayWorld
39 CDs
size of deluxe box set
“Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog division, will release Bob Dylan’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings on November 6. The 39-CD deluxe box set documents the second leg of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour and includes 381 tracks, 371 of them previously unreleased, along with liner notes by Mikal Gilmore and rare photographs.”
BroadwayWorld
381 tracks
tracks captured from the tour’s second leg
“Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings on November 6. The 39-CD collection captures 381 tracks from the tour’s second leg, including 371 previously unreleased recordings.”
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Bob Dylan's announced 39-CD archive of the 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue pairs 371 unreleased performances with renewed attention to setlist changes, ensemble dynamics, companion releases, and gaps in surviving tapes.
History
09/16/2026
The story is modestly broadened by explicitly positioning the 1976 archive alongside an already released 1975 archival collection, creating a fuller two-leg record of the tour.
09/16/2026
The story has shifted from general fiftieth-anniversary reassessment to a concrete, large-scale archival release documenting nearly the full professionally recorded 1976 second leg.
Bob Dylan launched Rolling Thunder 1976 on April 18, 1976 in Lakeland, Florida, featuring ten live debuts and three Blood on the Tracks songs amid reduced camaraderie.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release a 39-CD archive of Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue performances on November 6, covering the tour from Florida to Utah.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release a 39-CD archive of Bob Dylan’s second Rolling Thunder Revue leg on November 6, documenting 27 1976 concerts across the United States.
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue New Orleans soundboard recording documents the live debut of Rita May and recalls delays caused by sound system failure.
Bob Dylan performed on April 20, 1976, on Rolling Thunder '76 night two at St. Petersburg, Florida's Bayfront Civic Center Auditorium, using 1975-era songs including Mr. Tambourine Man as opener.
Flagging Down the Double E features sound engineer David Hendel discussing Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue and unveiling Mobile and Austin soundboard recordings.
Bob Dylan will release Rolling Thunder Revue Live on November 6, presenting professionally recorded performances from the 1976 second tour leg in a 39-CD archival set.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release a 39-CD collection on November 6 documenting Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue across 27 dates in the United States.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan’s 39-CD Rolling Thunder Revue set on November 6, documenting his 1976 second-leg tour across the United States.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will issue Bob Dylan's 39-CD 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue archive on November 6, documenting performances across the United States.
Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue performances will be released November 6 in a 39-CD collection spanning Lakeland, Fort Worth, and Salt Lake City.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Bob Dylan's 39-CD Rolling Thunder Revue archive on November 6, documenting the 1976 tour across the United States.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will issue Bob Dylan's 39-disc Rolling Thunder Revue archive on November 6, documenting the 1976 tour's second leg across the United States.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue recordings on November 6, documenting concerts across the United States, including Fort Worth and Fort Collins.
In this extensive interview, Rich Nesin recounts working around Bob Dylan’s tours from Rolling Thunder Revue in the mid-1970s through opening-act and production gigs into the 2000s.
12/7/2024 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
In this New Jersey-based interview, David Mansfield reflects on working with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue and decades of subsequent studio, touring, and film-scoring collaborations.
11/27/2023 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue is analyzed using Bootleg Vol. 5 performance snapshots, covering tour mood changes, covers, and the shelved film Renaldo And Clara.
Joan Baez described rehearsal dynamics behind Rolling Thunder '76 as Dylan’s night-two set shifted to Rolling Thunder '75 reprises in Florida during 1976.
Tufts Daily reports that Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue began in 1975 and that a 2002 live album captures the autumn leg in the northeast United States and Canada to illustrate Dylan's reinvention.
In this New Republic column, a writer revisits Bob Dylan's concerts and film portrayals, emphasizing Martin Scorsese's 2019 Rolling Thunder Revue documentary built from the 1975-76 tour.
Insiders recount Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, running October 1975 to May 1976, mixing mask staging and small venues with the December 8 Madison Square Garden Hurricane Carter benefit.
Bob Dylan and Sony Music Entertainment will issue a 39-disc archive of the 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue on November 6, including Fort Worth and Fort Collins recordings.
Bob Dylan will release 371 previously unreleased recordings from the 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue tour on November 6 through Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings.
On its 2019 Netflix release, Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue revisited Bob Dylan's 1975 tour through a hybrid of documentary and invented material.
5/15/2022 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue concert at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado is recounted through producer Rick Wurpel's detailed production memories.
In this essay, the author uses Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue and Martin Scorsese's Netflix documentary to reflect on American ideals and contradictions in the United States.
In an interview recorded in 2022, Kinky Friedman recounted Bob Dylan collaborations on tour, at the Houston Astrodome, and during a televised Chabad telethon.
5/14/2024 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
On Nov 1, 1975, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue performed at Southeastern Massachusetts University in North Dartmouth, as later documented by writer Bill Lattanzi.
Thunder at the Falls is reviewed as a standout Niagara Falls Rolling Thunder Revue recording, showcasing Dylan's tougher live rearrangements and guest performances by Joan Baez and Roger McGuinn.
Columbia and Legacy Recordings issued a 39-CD collection of Bob Dylan's 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue performances across nine U.S. states, including the closing Salt Lake City concert.
Columbia Records released Bob Dylan's Hard Rain on September 13, 1976, documenting Rolling Thunder Revue performances recorded in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Fort Worth, Texas.
Flagging Down the Double E's shares a 2022 interview in which Kinky Friedman discusses collaborations with Bob Dylan during and after the Rolling Thunder Revue.
6/27/2024 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Cult Following reviewed Bob Dylan's Providence 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue performance on 2025-11-30, focusing on the concert in Providence, Rhode Island.
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