Here’s a very short index to this marvelous book about the first Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
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pages in
1978 ed |
pages in
2002 ed |
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Chapter 1 |
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2-6 |
2-6 |
Ratso
& Roger McGuinn meet Dylan |
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Chapter
2 |
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7 |
7 |
on The Village clubs |
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8 |
8 |
Dylan on the streets again |
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8-9 |
8-9 |
Dylan |
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9-10 |
10-11 |
Dylan picks up Scarlet Rivera |
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10-11 |
11-12 |
Dylan meets Patti Smith |
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11-14 |
12-15 |
Jacques Levy on meeting Dylan |
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14-18 |
15-19 |
recording of Desire |
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19-20 |
20-21 |
Dylan planning “forever tour” |
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21-25 |
22-27 |
Mike Porco [1]
birthday party |
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Chapter
3 |
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26-33 |
27-34 |
Hurricane Carter |
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33-38 |
35-41 |
on the rerecording of “Hurricane” and lyrics
mistake |
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Chapter
4 |
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39 |
42 |
John Hammond show |
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40-42 |
43-46 |
party at MacDougal Mike’s |
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Chapter
5 |
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43-51 |
48-56 |
Dylan interview in the studio on the last rehearsal
night |
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51-54 |
57-59 |
last rehearsal in |
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54-56 |
60-62 |
Steven Soles birthday party at the hotel |
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Chapter
6 |
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57 |
62 |
Arrival at Sea Crest Motel, |
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58-59 |
63-64 |
Kinky Friedman (“Jewboy” lyrics) |
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60 |
65 |
Ratso gets kicked out of the hotel by Lou Kemp [2] |
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61 |
66 |
Ratso gets into |
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62-67 |
67-74 |
show in Plymouth |
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68 |
75 |
Ratso talks with “Lisa” |
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69-73 |
76-80 |
Ratso interview with Joan Baez |
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74 |
81 |
show in Plymouth |
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Chapter
7 |
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75 |
82 |
Ratso gets into |
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77-78 |
84-85 |
show in |
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80 |
87 |
Ratso gets into |
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80-83 |
88-91 |
Ratso in |
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86-87 |
92-93 |
Ratso bumps into Dylan |
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87-88 |
93-95 |
at Jack Kerouac’s grave |
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88-94 |
96-102 |
at Nicky’s |
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94 |
103 |
Ratso gets into |
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95-96 |
104-106 |
afternoon show in Providence |
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97-98 |
107-108 |
Dylan and politics |
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99 |
108-109 |
evening show in Providence |
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100-102 |
110-112 |
The |
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Chapter
8 |
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103 |
113 |
Dylan getting mad at Mary, a photographer |
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103-104 |
113-114 |
Ratso having breakfast at the hotel |
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104-106 |
114-116 |
The Vanderbilt mansion |
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106 |
116 |
Ratso gets into Stockbridge |
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107-108 |
117-118 |
At the hotel, meeting Chris O’Dell [3],
Sam Shepard, Bob
Neuwirth, Gary
Shafner [4] |
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109-114 |
119-125 |
afternoon show in Springfield,
Ratso is with Allen Ginsberg |
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114-118 |
125-129 |
on |
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119-120 |
130-132 |
evening show in Springfield,
including Arlo Guthrie |
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120-123 |
132-133 |
filming of “R.T.R.” singer |
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123-124 |
134-135 |
Kinky Friedman on the phone |
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124 |
136 |
Ratso gets into |
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124-126 |
137-139 |
Ratso writes letter to Phil Bender, a.k.a.
Bob Dylan |
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127-128 |
140-141 |
memories of Kinky Friedman |
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128 |
141 |
Joan Baez gives Ratso his name |
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129-136 |
143-150 |
Ratso having breakfast with Roger McGuinn |
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136-140 |
150-155 |
Ratso meets Lou Kemp |
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140-145 |
155-161 |
filming at the Curio Lounge |
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145-146 |
161-162 |
about the film crew on the earlier filming |
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146-147 |
162-163 |
show in Burlington |
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Chapter
9 |
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148-149 |
164-165 |
show in |
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150-151 |
166-167 |
Tom Pacheo calls, Ginsberg, Neuwirth, Elliott read
“Stone article |
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151-152 |
168-169 |
Ratso plays Pacheo song to Dylan |
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153-154 |
169-171 |
show in New Haven |
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155 |
172 |
celebrities backstage |
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157-172 |
172-191 |
Rolling Stone and Lou Kemp on the phone about money, large
halls etc. |
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172-173 |
191-193 |
Ratso on the phone with Jacques Levy |
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174-183 |
194-204 |
Dylan “interview” on the phone |
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183-186 |
204-207 |
Baez “interview” on the phone |
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186-187 |
207-208 |
Rolling Stone again |
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187 |
208-209 |
Mel Howard [5]
on phone |
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188-192 |
210214 |
Rolling Stone once more |
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Chapter
10 |
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193-194 |
215-216 |
Ratso gets into |
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194-199 |
216-221 |
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199-201 |
221-223 |
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201-204 |
223-226 |
Ratso meets Amy |
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204 |
227 |
into |
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205-206 |
228-229 |
show in Worcester |
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206-208 |
230 |
famous lobby breakdown |
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208-209 |
231-232 |
lobby scene with Joan Baez and Roger McGuinn |
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210-211 |
233-234 |
Ratso meets Joni Mitchell and Lou Kemp in the hospitality suite |
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211-212 |
236-237 |
hitchhiking scene with Sara and Bob |
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212-213 |
237 |
show in Cambridge |
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213 |
237 |
Ratso calls Rubin Carter |
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214 |
238 |
Ratso having breakfast with Sara & Sally Grossman [6] |
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214-216 |
239-242 |
maniacs in the lobby |
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216-217 |
242 |
Ratso shopping with Sara |
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218 |
242 |
misses the shows in |
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219-220 |
243-245 |
Ratso getting hookers with Gary Shafner |
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221 |
246 |
Dylan just getting up |
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221-222 |
246-247 |
show in Waltham |
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222-223 |
247-249 |
Ratso having breakfast with Sara and Bob |
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Chapter
11 |
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224 |
250 |
Ratso picking up Kinky Friedman in |
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224-225 |
251 |
show in Hartford |
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225 |
251 |
Kinky Friedman joins the party |
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237 |
264 |
Kinky Friedman leaves, Ratso pulls into Fenway |
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237-239 |
265-266 |
filming at a gas station in Fenway |
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240-242 |
267-271 |
Ratso with Joan Baez in camper outside |
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242-249 |
272-279 |
show in Augusta,
talking to Joni Mitchell inside |
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249-250 |
279-280 |
Ratso at the doctor’s with Mike Evans [7] |
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250-251 |
280-281 |
Ratso at the hotel with “Beattie”, Dylan’s mother Beatty, and Bob
Neuwirth |
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251-252 |
281-282 |
filming at old farmhouse with Dylan and Scarlet
Rivera |
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252 |
282 |
with Dylan in car (on |
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253 |
283 |
Ratso arriving at the Thanksgiving dinner in |
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254-255 |
284-285 |
show in Bangor,
with Beattie |
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256-257 |
286 |
Michael Bloomfield on the phone |
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Chapter
12 |
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268 |
298 |
into |
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268-270 |
299-301 |
filming in Ratso’s hotel room |
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271-275 |
301-306 |
Ratso at a café, talking to Joni |
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276 |
307-308 |
show in Quebec City |
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276-277 |
308-309 |
Ratso saying goodbye to Dave Meyers |
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277-279 |
309-311 |
on plane to |
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279-281 |
312-314 |
Bob Neuwirth’s freak-out scene |
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282-284 |
314-316 |
Sara
& Helena Kallianiotes’s [9] escape scene, forest scene,
Dylan directing |
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284-286 |
317-319 |
CBC parody in the lobby |
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288-289 |
321-322 |
show in Toronto |
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290-292 |
323-325 |
Ratso talking to fan in Volkswagen |
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293-295 |
326-328 |
Ratso in hospitality suite with Dylan, Roger
McGuinn and Ronee Blakley |
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295-303 |
329-337 |
Mel Howard on the bus, talking about the movie |
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304 |
338-339 |
filming at |
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Chapter
13 |
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308-309 |
343-344 |
Ratso reads Combat Zone to Joan Baez |
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309-316 |
345-352 |
Ratso interviews Beatty |
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316-317 |
352-353 |
Ratso meets Dylan, phones Leonard Cohen |
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317-318 |
354-356 |
Dylan writes autograph, buys clothes but is short
on money |
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320-322 |
357-360 |
Ratso picks up Sara, they take cab to Leonard
Cohen’s place |
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322-324 |
360-361 |
They pick up Leonard Cohen and friends and go to The Forum
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324-330 |
361-368 |
party at the hotel, Ratso talking to Ronee Blakeley
in the morning |
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330-337 |
369-376 |
Ratso joins Joni Mitchell and Roger McGuinn, they
go to Joni’s friend Ruth |
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337-345 |
376-385 |
on to Leonard Cohen’s house, then back to the hotel |
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345-349 |
386-390 |
at Emmett Grogan’s house, talking to Dylan and Grogan |
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Chapter
14 |
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350-353 |
391-394 |
Ratso gets into |
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354 |
395-396 |
Ratso talks to Joni Mitchell and Robbie Robertson |
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355-357 |
397-398 |
show in Trenton Jail |
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357-361 |
399-403 |
press conference |
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362-371 |
404-414 |
Hurricane 1 show at |
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371-376 |
414-420 |
Parties in Felt Forum and |
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Chapter
15 |
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377-384 |
421-429 |
Ratso interviews Robbie Robertson |
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384-394 |
429-441 |
Ratso in Joni Mitchell’s room, the last day |
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394-395 |
441-442 |
Ratso calls Phil Ochs |
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396-407 |
443-455 |
Ratso interviews Dylan on the phone |
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Chapter
16 |
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408-410 |
456-459 |
assorted parties and at Other End with Dylan and
Roger McGuinn |
[TOP]
This film was shot during the first Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Sam
Shepard was hired as script writer, but produced no script, instead the
"diary" Rolling Thunder Logbook, see chapter 10 Suggested
Readings. Dylan and Howard Alk spent large part of 1977
editing the film and it was first released
Renaldo & Clara contains some forty-five minutes of very good live footage as well as a "background music" taken from the October rehearsals.
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Tracks in order of
appearance |
Source |
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When I Paint My
Masterpiece |
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Kaw-Liga |
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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall |
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People Get Ready |
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I Want You |
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What Will You Do When Jesus Comes? |
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Little Moses |
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It Ain't Me Babe |
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Knockin' On Heaven's Door |
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Hurricane |
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She Belongs To Me |
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It Takes A |
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If You See Her, Say Hello |
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Romance In |
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One Too Many Mornings |
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One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) |
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Sara |
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The Water Is Wide |
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Patty's Gone To |
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Never Let Me Go |
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Sad-Eyed Lady Of The |
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Tangled Up In Blue |
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Just Like A Woman |
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Knockin' On Heaven's Door |
[TOP]
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May |
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley
Below) |
3 |
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June |
Abandoned Love |
2 |
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July |
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4 |
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Catfish |
5 |
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Golden Loom |
6 |
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Hurricane |
7 |
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8 |
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Joey |
9 |
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Love Copy |
10 |
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Money Blues |
1, 11 |
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12 |
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Oh, Sister |
13 |
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Rita May |
14 |
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Romance In |
8 |
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Sara |
7 |
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Sign Language |
15 |
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Town
(Reference) |
16 |
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Wiretappin' |
1 |
Notes:
1. No Dylan version of this song is in
circulation.
2. An early version was played at the
Other End,
3.
4. Played during the tours in 1975,
1976 and 1978, and occasionally during the Never-Ending Tour.
5. Mentioned in some of the press
reviews from the last show in 1976 in
6. Sung by Rob Stoner in Renaldo & Clara. Covered by Joe Cocker on his album 'Stingray' (A&M).
7. Covered by Roger McGuinn on his
album 'Thunderbyrd' (
8. Played only during the first
Rolling Thunder Revue. Hurricane remains to this day one of the most requested
songs at concerts, but I guess we are as likely to hear it as we are to hear
Sara again.
9. Played during the Rolling Thunder
Revue in 1975 and 1976.
10. This song didn't made its live
debut until 1987 when The Grateful Dead persuaded Dylan to take it up. Played also
during the
11. A song mentioned by Sloman [1], as
being recorded at the 'Sara-session' in July, but it is probably a work name
for Abandoned Love.
12. No cover known, but lyrics
published in Lyrics..
13. Played only during the second
Rolling Thunder Revue in 1976.
14. Played during the Rolling Thunder
Revue in 1975 and 1976. and with new startling arrangement in 1978.
15. One live performance from
16. Recorded with Eric Clapton 1976 and
released on his album 'No Reason To Cry', September 1976.
17. Title present on the studio sheets
from 31 July, but without CO-number.
18.
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|
William
J. Clinton |
The
Bob Dylan CD & CDR Field Recordings Guide Of William J. Clinton |
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Tim Dunn |
I Just Write 'Em As They Come. |
|
Glen
Dundas |
Tangled
Up In Tapes — 4th Edition A Recording History of Bob Dylan SMA Services, |
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A Life
In Stolen Moments. Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995. Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages. |
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Bob
Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 |
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Michael
Krogsgaard |
Positively
Bob Dylan |
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Michael
Krogsgaard |
Bob
Dylan: The Recording Sessions (Part 3). |
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Bob's
Boots |
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Ray
Stavrou |
A
Vinyl Headstone Almost In Place |
[TOP]
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John Bauldie |
Bob Dylan & Desire. |
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Stewart P.
Bicker |
The Red Rose And The Briar 1984. Renaldo & Clara scene by scene with
descriptions and analysis. |
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C. P. Lee |
Like A Bullet Of Light – The Films Of Bob Dylan. Helter Skelter 2000. |
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Jonas Dergoth |
A Concise Synopsis Of Renaldo & Clara Paperback, 36
pages. |
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Les Kokay |
Songs Of The Underground - Rolling Thunder
Revue. A
collector's guide to the Rolling Thunder Revue 1975-1976. 160 pages. |
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Sam Shepard |
Rolling Thunder Logbook Viking Press 1977,
hardback 184 pages. Lots of very nice pictures! |
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Larry Sloman |
Bob Dylan On The Road. Rolling With The
Thunder Bantam Books 1978,
paperback 413 pages. Reprinted in 2002
by Helter Skelter with a new foreword by Kinky Friedman. Softcover 464 pages. The classic reportage from the first Rolling
Thunder Revue tour. Narration starts summer 1975 with the surprise appearances
in the |
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Robin Witting |
Desire. Songs Of
Redemption. |
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John Baldwin |
The fiddler now upspoke, Volumes 1–5. A collection of Bob Dylan interviews and press
conferences. Desolation Row Promotions, 1995. |
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Carl Benson (ed) |
The Bob Dylan Companion — Four Decades of
Commentary. Schirmer Books, |
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Michael Gray |
Song & Dance Man III. The Art Of Bob
Dylan Cassell 1999. Hardback 918 pages. |
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David Hajdu |
Positively |
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Todd Harvey |
The Formative Dylan. Transmission and
Stylistic Influences, 1961-1963 |
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Behind The Shades. A Biography. Summit Books 1991, 500 pages. |
|
Daniel Kramer |
Bob Dylan. Citadel
Press (hardback) or Pocket Books. Great
photo book from 1964-1965. |
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Craig McGregor (ed) |
Bob Dylan. A Retrospective. William Morrow 1972 |
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Anthony Scaduto |
Bob Dylan. An
intimate biography. New American Library 1973 |
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Eric von Schmidt, Jim Rooney |
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down. The
Illustrated Story of the |
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Robert Shelton |
No Direction Home. The
Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New American Library 1986. |
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Howard Sounes |
Down The Highway. The Life Of Bob Dylan. Groove Press 2001. |
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Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed) |
Conclusions On The Wall. New
Essays On Bob Dylan. Thin Man 1980 |
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Paul Williams |
Watching The River Flow Observations on Bob Dylan's Art-in-Progress,
1966-1995. Omnibus Press 1996, 255 pages. |
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Paul Williams |
Performing Artist – The Music of Bob
Dylan. Volume One, 1960–1973. |
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Paul Williams |
Performing Artist – The Middle Years:
1974-1986 |
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A Chat with Jacques Levy – Derek Barker, Isis #90 |
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Bob Dylan’s Renaldo &
Clara – by John Nogowski, On The Tracks #14 (Summer 1998) |
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David Mansfield Interview –
by Larry Jaffee, On The Tracks #17 (Fall 1999) |
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Hurricane – by Paul
Williams, |
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Interview: Kinky Friedman – The Telegraph
#42 (Summer 1992) |
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Interview: Mike Evans, Dylan's personal security man on Rolling Thunder
– The Telegraph #46 (Autumn 1993) |
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Interview: Ronee Blakeley – The
Telegraph #41 (Winter 1991) |
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Jacques Levy Interview –
by Larry Jaffee, On The Tracks #4 (Fall 1994) |
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Mel Howard on Filming
Renaldo & Clara – The Telegraph #46 (Autumn 1993) |
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Seems Like I have Been
Down This Way Before. An examination of Black Diamond Bay – by Robert Forryan, Dignity #4 |
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Tangled Up In Film.
Renaldo and Clara and Les Enfants du Paradis – Dignity #9 |
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[1] owner of
[2] producer and road manager
[3] road manager.
[4] described by Mike Evans as ”Dylan’s gofer”
[5] associate producer, camera
[6] Albert Grossman’s wife
[7] head of ”Big Police” security.
[8] sound man
[9]