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The last three songs on the album (“You’re a Big Girl Now,” “I Threw It All Away,” and “Idiot Wind“) are as powerful and exciting as anything Dylan has done (comparable, for instance, to the May 1966 versions of “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone”). As phenomenal as every aspect of each of these performances is, the unique orchestration of guitars, keyboards, violin, drums and voice on “Big Girl” must be singled out for particular praise. Stoner’s bass-playing while Dylan sings “Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstacy” on “Idiot Wind” will have a special place in my heart as long as I live.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

Fantastic concert from the penultimate show of Rolling Thunder Revue 2. Five songs from this show were chosen to be included on Bob Dylan’s brilliant live album “Hard Rain”: Maggie’s Farm, One Too Many Mornings, Shelter from the Storm, You’re a Big Girl Now & Idiot Wind.

Hughes Stadium
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
23 May 1976

• Bob Dylan (guitar, vocal & harmonica)
• Scarlet Rivera (violin)
• T-bone J. Henry Burnette (guitar & piano)
• Steven Soles (guitar)
• Mick Ronson (guitar)
• Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
• Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
• David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
• Rob Stoner (bass)
• Howie Wyeth (drums)
• Gary Burke (percussion)

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Setlist:

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. It Ain’t Me, Babe
3. Vincent van Gogh (Robert Friemark)
4. Maggie’s Farm
5. One Too Many Mornings
6. Mozambique (Bob Dylan–Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
7. Isis (Bob Dylan–Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
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8. Blowin’ In The Wind
   
9. Railroad Boy (trad.)
10. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman)
    
11. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
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12. Shelter From The Storm
    
13. Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan–Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
14. I Want You
15. Tangled Up In Blue
16. You’re A Big Girl Now
    

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17. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
18. Lay Lady Lay
19. Silver Mantis (Joseph Henry Burnett, John Fleming)
20. Going, Going, Gone
21. Idiot Wind
    
22. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
23. Gotta Travel On (Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, David Lazar, Tom Six)
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24. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

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• 4, 5, 12, 16, 21 released on HARD RAIN – 10 September 1976
• 4-6, 8-12, 21, 22, 24 included in the TV film HARD RAIN, first broadcast by NBC Network 14 September 1976

From HARD RAIN:

Check out:

• Alldylan @ Facebook
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• Bob Dylan: Live 1961- 1969 (video & audio)
• Bob Dylan: 5 essential videos from the 60’s
• Bob Dylan live 1970 – 1979 (videos & audio)
• Bob Dylan: 7 essential videos from the 70’s
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• Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com
• Olof’s “Still On The Road“

-Egil