Bob Dylan
Civic Theater
Akron, Ohio
17 May 1980

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Regina McCreary Havis:
00 – Monologue

Bridges-Evans-King-Havis-Young:
01 – Let It Ride (McCoy/Dennis)
02 – (You’ve Got To) Hold On (?)
03 – It’s Gonna Rain (C Johnson)
04 – Show Me The Way Lord (?)
05 – Freedom At The Wall (?)
06 – This Train Is Bound For Glory (This Train) (Big Bill Broonzy)

07 – Gotta Serve Somebody
08 – I Believe In You
09 – When You Gonna Wake Up
10 – Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
11 – Cover Down, Break Through
12 – Precious Angel
13 – Man Gave Names To All The Animals
14 – Slow Train

Mary Elizabeth Bridges:
15 – Walk Around Heaven All Day (Rev. James Cleveland/Cassietta George)

Mona Lisa Young;
16 – Stranger In The City (Healing) (?)

17 – Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
18 – Solid Rock
19 – Saving Grace
20 – Saved (Bob Dylan/Tim Drummond)
21 – What Can I Do For You?
22 – In The Garden

    (encore)

23 – Are You Ready?
24 – Pressing On
25 – Blessed Be The Name

Concert # 26 of the Third Gospel Tour.
Gospel concert # 76. 1980 concert # 50.
Concert # 26 with the Third Gospel Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar),
Fred Tackett (guitar),
Spooner Oldham (keyboards),
Tim Drummond (bass),
Terry Young (keyboards),
Jim Keltner (drums),
Clydie King,
Gwen Evans,
Mary Elizabeth Bridges,
Regina Havis,
Mona Lisa Young (background vocals).

21 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
24 Bob Dylan (piano).

BobTalk

Thank you. All right. Be quiet out there. (…..). Well, I know it’s not fashionable to talk about Heaven or Hell. But Godís always fashionable. And I notice at this motel…we’re staying at this motel, I guess, down the road somewhere there’s a convention down there.
They must have, there must be two thousand people just up all hours of the night. It’s hard to get any rest at all. Just carrying on, big people, little people, all sizes and shapes. Well, then they seem to have taken over the place, eating and drinking and being merry. Having a good time. I know none of those people believe in Heaven and Hell, I can just take a look at them and tell that. (after When You Gonna Wake Up)

Thank you. What a friendly crowd, ha ha. I’m not used to these friendly crowds no more. Usually the Devilís working all kinds of mischief in the crowds we visit. Just looking out at them demons. (after Ainít Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody)

Well, thank you. (…..). All right, if you havenít guessed, the name of that last animal, I know you got it, was a snake. Same snake that was in the Garden of Eden. Same snake that Lucifer put his spirit into to deceive Eve, to deceive Adam. Who gave him the keys to this world. Lucifer was a high angel of God, he’s not one of these Devils with pitchforks. (…..). Do you believe in the power of the gospel? That Jesus Christ gave…(went to) the Cross for the forgiveness of sins, but also
to destroy the works of the Devil. Now that’s something you should talk about. (after Man Gave Names To All The Animals)

All right, thank you. On the keyboards tonight, give him a warm hand, from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Spooner Oldham. On the other set of keyboards, from Birmingham, Alabama, Terry Young. Lead guitar tonight, from Little Rock, Arkansas, Fred Tackett. On the drums tonight, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jim Keltner. They canít see him. All right, on the bass guitar, from Cincinnati, graduated from High School, when was it? 1942? Anyway, he’s been around almost as long as I have, Tim Drummond. From Dallas, Texas, Clydie King. From Houston, Texas, Gwen Evans. From Cleveland, Mary Bridges. I think she’s from Cleveland. From San Francisco, California, city of brotherly love, Mona Lisa Young. Remember the girl that told you the story about Jesus? Right. Seems like I didn’t have to tell you about Jesus, seems like you knew all about him. From Nashville, Tennessee, Regina McCreary. (before Are You Ready?)

Stereo audience recording, 145 minutes.

LB-04081 ; 49min+68min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B-

5/17/80 Akron, Ohio, Civic Theater

good to very good sound [B-];

(a bittorrent from 11/08 is a close eac match on d1t2 with same gaps at beginning and end of track;
described with a generic info file and filenames like “bd80-05-17d1tr02.flac”)

has small gaps between tracks on d1t1; drop/static right channel d1t5 1:33; digipops d2t1 0:06, 0:09, 0:10, 2:56; d2t10 has a lot of very small drops