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August 21: Bob Dylan Portland, Oregon 1990 (audio)

..they were terrific, spectacularly good… superb!
… Most of all, I think, the wondrous music this team is creating at this show is a reflection of the mind-state of the singer/rhythm guitarist/bandleader/harmonica player – Bob Dylan, the author of this magnificent work of accidental art, this recording which stops time and leaves me as a listener breathless and thrilled, over and over again.
-Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performance Artist 1986-1990 And Beyond)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland, Oregon
21 August 1990

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • G. E. Smith (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Christopher Parker (drums)
  • Steve Bruton (guitar)

happen.” In the case of Portland ‘90, this moment is not one song but a sequence of songs: the unforgettable first electric set of “Subterranean Homesick Blues”/”I Want You”/”You’re a Big Girl Now”/”Masters of War”/”I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”/”otta Serve Somebody.” The “moment” in which Dylan and his collaborators succeed in stopping time is also the entire concert, every song including the twelve that follow the six just named (a four-song acoustic band set, a second six-song electric set, and two encores).
-Paul Williams

  1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  2. I Want You
    “I Want You” sounds terrific from the get-go, multiple guitars playing the evocative and recognizable opening notes of the song with keyboard richness against a bright and easy rhythm backup..”
    –Paul Williams
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279199510
  3. You’re A Big Girl Now
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279199523
  4. Masters Of War
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279199536
  5. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200214
  6. Gotta Serve Somebody
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200244
  7. John Brown
  8. Song To Woody
  9. Lakes Of Pontchartrain (trad.)
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200507
  10. It Ain’t Me, Babe
  11. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
  12. All Along The Watchtower
  13. I’ll Remember You
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200539
  14. What Good Am I?
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200565
  15. In The Garden
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279200592
  16. Like A Rolling Stone
    —
  17. Blowin’ In The Wind
  18. Highway 61 Revisited

-Egil

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