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On January 12, as a warm-up for two stadium shows in Brazil and ten further dates in Paris and London, he played his first club gig in over twenty-five years, at Toad’s Place in New Haven. The seven hundred lucky witnesses saw this forty-eightyear-old man play for a total of four and a half hours.
Starting at a quarter to nine, with a cover of Joe South’s ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ (‘before you accuse, criticize, or abuse I walk a mile in my shoes’), Dylan finally left the Toad’s stage at twenty minutes past two in the morning, after four sets, interspersed by three breaks of just twentyfive minutes each, having played fifty songs in total, only eight of which derived from his supposed halcyon days of 1963-66.
~Clinton Heylin (Behind The Shades)

Toad’s Place
New Haven, Connecticut
12 January 1990

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

The show had 4 sets:

Set	songs	time
I	1-11	55
II	12-20	40
III	21-34	65
IV	35-50	80

1, 4-7, 14, 21, 30, 40  are all live debuts.

1. Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Joe South)
   https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234459473
2. One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
3. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
4. Trouble No More (McKinley Morganfield)
5. I’ve Been All Around This World (trad.)
6. Political World
7. Where Teardrops Fall
8. Tears Of Rage (Bob Dylan & Richard Manuel)
9. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
   https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/234459610
10. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
11. Everybody’s Movin’ (Glen Trout)
    
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12. Watching The River Flow
13. What Was It You Wanted
14. Oh Baby It Ain’t No Lie (Elizabeth Cotten)
15. Lenny Bruce
16. I Believe In You
17. Man Of Peace
18. Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)
19. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
20. All Along The Watchtower
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21. Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
22. Political World
23. What Good Am I?
24. Wiggle Wiggle
25. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
26. Pay The Price (Moon Martin)
27. Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson)
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382540
28. Man In The Long Black Coat
29. Congratulations
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382608
30. Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen)
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382641
31. Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams-Jimmy Davies)
32. Confidential (Dolinda Morgan)
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382722
33. In The Garden
34. Everything Is Broken
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35. So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye (Weldon Rogers)
36. Where Teardrops Fall
37. Political World
38. Pretty Peggy-O (trad. arr. Bob Dylan)
39. I’ll Remember You
40. Key To The Highway (Charles Segar/Willie Broonzy)
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382692
41. Joey (Bob Dylan & Jacques Levy)
42. Lay Lady Lay
43. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
44. When Did You Leave Heaven? (W. Bullock/R. Whiting)
45. Maggie’s Farm
46. I’ve Been All Around This World (trad.)
47. In The Pines (Huddie “Leadbelly” Leadbetter)
48. Highway 61 Revisited
    https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/235382391
49. Precious Memories (arr. by Bob Dylan)
50. Like A Rolling Stone

After almost four hours of singing, Dylan launched into a stinging Highway 61 Revisited and the wistful Precious Memories, from Knocked Out Loaded.
Finally, after a few false starts, Dylan swung into Like A Rolling Stone, requisite even on such an unprecedented night.
hough his voice was starting to show signs of fatigue from its arduous workout, and the audience was exhausted,
it was a final, exultant moment, releasing everyone for home at 2:30 am.

Dylan is only one year away from his 50th birthday and his 30th year as a recording artist.  Yet here he was, in close contact with his fans once again, still experimenting with new songs,  still working on numbers he has been playing for decades. It was an awe-inspiring performance,  as close to a comprehensive retrospective as Dylan is ever likely to offer onstage.
–Rolling Stone, 8 March 1990

The single weirdest show in Dylan’s career. This four-and-a-half-hour marathon set was a warm-up before the 1990 leg of the NET kicked off. Extreme rarities like “Man Of Peace” and “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” are mixed with shocking covers like “Dancing In The Dark.” By the end he’s taking requests, and playing whatever the crowd yells for. You have to hear it to believe it.
-Andy Greene (rollingstone.com – May 10, 2011)

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Check out:

• Alldylan @ Facebook
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• Bob Dylan concert videos/audios from 1990 – 1995 @ alldylan.com
• Bob Dylan: Concerts & Videos from 1996 – 1999 @ Alldylan.com
• Bob Dylan: 10 concert videos you MUST see from the 90’s
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• Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com
• Olof’s “Still On The Road“

-Egil