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Last Update: 09/29/2026 at 5:33 PM EST
Rolling Thunder Revue’s Changing Second Act
Coverage from Flagging Down the Double E's, NJArts.net, and others
The Rolling Thunder Revue was Bob Dylan’s 1975–76 traveling ensemble, combining small-venue concerts, changing lineups, guest appearances, theatrical presentation, and related film work.
The material emphasizes a marked difference between the energetic, collaborative first phase and the more altered, less cohesive 1976 continuation, while archival releases and retrospective accounts continue to document the tour’s performances. Its significance rests primarily in the breadth of its collaborations, its benefit for Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, and the surviving recordings and recollections that illuminate the tour’s evolving form.
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09/08/2026
The story is now framed more sharply as a two-phase project, contrasting the cohesive, collaborative 1975 tour with a substantially altered and less cohesive 1976 continuation. It also newly foregrounds the Hurricane Carter benefit and the revue’s connection to Renaldo and Clara and Joni Mitchell’s “Coyote.”
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The main change is a sharper emphasis on archival recovery and documentary reinterpretation of Rolling Thunder Revue, with new material highlighting setlist variation and recording restoration. The story also broadens slightly by adding Martin Scorsese's film and renewed debate over how the tour's history is framed.
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Important
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.
4/18/2026 • Live Performance • General
On May 26 in Red Bank, New Jersey, former Bob Dylan collaborator Rob Stoner will join Pat Guadagno's BobFest at the Count Basie Center for the Arts.
5/2/2022 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue performed in Gatesville, Texas, in 1976 for juvenile detainees after cancelled Dallas and Austin plans.
5/15/2026 • Live Performance • General
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.
5/3/2026 • Live Performance • General
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.
4/20/2026 • Live Performance • General
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.
12/24/2023 • Live Performance • General
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue performances in the mid 1970s across the northeast United States are documented by Martin Scorsese for Netflix.
6/10/2019 • Live Performance • General
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 electrified his sound at the Newport Folk Festival, then released Highway 61 Revisited on August 30, 1965, including Like a Rolling Stone.
5/5/2026 • Albums & Recordings • General
In an in-depth online interview, Roger McGuinn recounts Bob Dylan collaborations from the 1960s through Rolling Thunder Revue and later tours.
10/30/2025 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
In 2019, Martin Scorsese released the documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese on Netflix in the United States.
1/19/2021 • Dylan Studies • General
Bob Dylan's November 16 Supper Club late show is described as a career-condensed acoustic performance captured by soundboard-style recordings.
5/4/2026 • Live Performance • 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.
4/28/2026 • Live Performance • General
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.
4/20/2026 • Live Performance • General
The article describes how Bob Dylan used the mid-1970s Rolling Thunder Revue tour across the United States to realize Beat generation ideals.
9/12/2021 • Live Performance • General
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.
6/5/2026 • Live Performance • General
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.
5/11/2026 • Live Performance • General
Rolling Thunder Revue, a Netflix film by Martin Scorsese about the 1975 tour, was released on Jun 12, 2019 alongside a 14-CD box set.
6/12/2019 • Live Performance • General
On May 30, 2019, NPR published First Listen coverage of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings featuring a 10 track sampler.
5/30/2019 • Live Performance • General
John Nogowski analyzes Bob Dylan's Tangled Up in Blue, comparing Blood on the Tracks and Real Live while recounting related recording sessions and archival releases.
7/28/2026 • Songs & Songwriting • General
Bob Dylan faced ensemble and touring challenges during the 1978 making and promotion of Street-Legal amid a divorce and custody battle with Sara Dylan and venue restrictions in Japan.
6/15/2026 • Albums & Recordings • 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.
2/23/2026 • Live Performance • General
On November 27, 1975, Bob Dylan performed at the Bangor Municipal Auditorium in Bangor, Maine, as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue, with the show captured on a notable audience tape.
11/27/2025 • Live Performance • General
On May 23, 1976, Bob Dylan performed a rain-soaked Rolling Thunder Revue concert at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado.
6/1/2024 • Live Performance • 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.
5/23/2024 • Live Performance • General
Uncut reviews Bob Dylan's 1978 world tour and Street-Legal era, linking expanded band staging and Rundown Studios recording to divisive album and concert reception.
6/5/2026 • Live Performance • General
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Bob Dylan is discussed as an artist whose Highway 61 Revisited era, electric backlash, and John Wesley Harding regrouping contributed to long-term rock culture shifts.
5/14/2026 • Dylan Studies • General
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.
7/16/2019 • Dylan Studies • General
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
Uncut gathers first-person musician accounts from the 1960s to the 2010s describing Bob Dylan meetings, sessions, and major tour eras including Rolling Thunder Revue.
6/5/2026 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
America magazine coverage of Bob Dylan shifts from early omissions to later essays and interpretive readings tied to Nobel Prize remarks and Homer.
5/19/2026 • Career & Biography • General
On the eve of America's bicentennial, Ray Padgett discusses the Rolling Thunder Revue and its 50th anniversary on Infinity Goes Up on Trial, with a focus on the Plymouth start.
10/1/2025 • Live Performance • General
Rolling Thunder Revue 1976 stopped in Baton Rouge, then skipped Lake Charles due to low ticket sales, leaving Dylan and the troupe days in Louisiana.
5/4/2026 • Live Performance • General
Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue returned to Central Florida after earlier consecutive shows, with Joan Baez wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.
4/23/2026 • Live Performance • General
Eric Andersen and Scarlet Rivera perform at Weber Hall in Duluth, Minnesota on Saturday July 23 to benefit the Duluth Armory, recalling Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.
7/20/2016 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Bob Dylan discussed developing the Rolling Thunder Revue during a Malibu visit with Roger McGuinn, a move that culminated in the 1975-76 tour.
11/8/2025 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Bob Dylan, with Joel Paterson and Julian Lage, performed at Boston's Leader Bank Pavilion on a tour stop emphasizing 2020 material and jazz-inflected arrangements.
7/24/2026 • Live Performance • General
Bob Dylan played The Gorge Amphitheatre with Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison on a rare outdoor North American reunion date, including guest verses during I Shall Be Released.
7/9/2026 • Live Performance • General
Joni Mitchell’s Hejira era Coyote draws on Rolling Thunder Revue history, then gains a distinctive sound from Jaco Pastorius’s A&M Studios overdubs and later Last Waltz performances preserved by Martin Scorsese.
7/17/2026 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
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
On November 27, 1975, Bob Dylan performed a four hour Rolling Thunder Revue show in Bangor, Maine.
11/14/2025 • Live Performance • General
Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue, featuring Joan Baez and others, emphasized intimate venues and is presented as a model for supporting grassroots music today in the UK context.
8/19/2025 • Live Performance • General
On 2025-08-07, CultFollowing published a review of Bob Dylan's Going Mobile bootleg, highlighting a Rolling Thunder Revue Alabama performance.
8/7/2025 • Live Performance • General
On May 26, Pat Guadagno's BobFest staged a Rolling Thunder Revue-themed tribute at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey.
5/27/2022 • Community & Culture • General
Joni Mitchell and Dylan perform Coyote during the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue at Gordon Lightfoot's house in Nova Scotia, later featured in Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue.
10/17/2025 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
Roger McGuinn recalls joining Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue on its 1975–76 U.S. tour, citing intimate venues and a communal artists' atmosphere in locations including Clearwater, Florida.
9/28/2025 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
On December 2, 1975 in Toronto, Joni Mitchell debuted a Coyote work-in-progress at Gordon Lightfoot's home, later releasing the expanded song on Hejira in 1976.
3/18/2026 • Collaborations & Other Artists • General
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Bobserve reports, as of Sep 2024, that Dylan has shared bills with more than 400 acts across venues worldwide.
4/18/2024 • Community & Culture • General