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Dylan delivers a knock-out performance. The gospel material is powerful and biting without a condescending edge. The older standards are performed with a new fire and passion that includes them among the best live versions to date. Dylan stumbles on the lyrics once or twice, but adds new lines as well that more than compensate. The vocals are crisp are over the top out front and in your face. The music is tight, well mixed, and well performed.
~bobsboots.com

Saenger Theater
Saenger Performing Arts Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
10 November 1981

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• Fred Tackett (guitar)
• Steve Ripley (guitar)
• Al Kooper (keyboards)
• Tim Drummond (bass)
• Jim Keltner (drums)
• Arthur Rosato (drums)
• Clydie King, Regina Havis, Madelyn Quebec (background vocals)

 

… the sound quality of the tape, which is in circulating and which one hopes will be released in it’s entirety to an appreciative public someday, is absolutely brilliant, and I know it’s given a number of fans a different perspective on Dylan’s 1981 performances. This is a concert to listen to for the pure joy of music.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

I totally agree with PW, this is indeed a brilliant concert.

I’ve embedded a couple of “single” songs and the full concert audio down below the setlist.

Setlist:

1. Gotta Serve Somebody
2. I Believe In You
   
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. I Want You
5. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
6. Maggie’s Farm
7. Girl From The North Country
   https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15873860
8. Ballad Of A Thin Man
9. Heart Of Mine
10. Simple Twist Of Fate
11. All Along The Watchtower
12. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
13. Forever Young
14. Gamblin’ Man (trad.)
15. The Times They Are A-Changin’
16. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
17. Watered-Down Love
18. Shot Of Love
19. Masters Of War
20. Just Like A Woman
21. Thief On The Cross
22. Dead Man, Dead Man
23. When You Gonna Wake Up
24. In The Garden
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25. Blowin’ In The Wind
26. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
27. It Ain’t Me, Babe
28. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

 Full concert:

Check out:

• Alldylan @ Facebook
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• Bob Dylan: Live 1980 – 1989 (Video & audio)
  
• Bob Dylan: 8 essential videos from the 80’s
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• Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com
• Olof’s “Still On The Road“

-Egil