Rolling Thunder Revue
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Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue brought him together onstage with Joan Baez and musicians including Rob Stoner, Scarlet Rivera, Howie Wyeth, Mick Ronson, David Mansfield, Steven Soles, and T Bone Burnett.
Its recorded history includes performances from the 1976 tour, among them the May 16 Fort Worth concert and a Fort Collins performance associated with the NBC special Hard Rain. The 39-disc collection The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings gathers 381 tracks, including many previously unreleased performances, while separate editions document particular concerts. Together, the tour and its recordings offer a lasting record of Dylan’s collaborative live work.
The update clarifies that the Fort Worth three-LP edition contains the complete concert and gives the scheduled release date as November 6, 2026; the archive’s broader scope remains consistent with the earlier account.
The current version clarifies that the archive does not provide complete concert coverage across the tour’s 27 scheduled dates, tempering the earlier description of its span.
The archival project is now more concretely defined, adding a standalone complete Fort Worth edition, an advance track, and expanded Hard Rain-related documentation.
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.
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.
- A 39-CD Rolling Thunder archive is scheduled for November 6, 2026.
- The set contains 371 unreleased performances across 381 tracks.
- The archive covers nearly the full professionally recorded 1976 second leg.
- A separate three-LP edition presents the complete May 16 Fort Worth concert.
- No official or verified audience recording has been located for Salt Lake City.
The reassessment is largely confirmatory, but it adds sharper detail about the 1976 leg's revised repertoire and identifies Hard Rain as a selective composite rather than a complete tour document.
Bob Dylan’s 1975–76 Rolling Thunder Revue is receiving a dense anniversary and archival reassessment, with attention to its ensemble touring model, changing setlists, preserved recordings, documentary mediation, and surviving archive gaps.
