Bob Dylan – Pelham, AL (09/11/92)

Bob Dylan
Oak Mountain Amphitheater
Pelham, Alabama
11 September 1992

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1. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
2. Pretty Peggy-O (trad. arr. Bob Dylan)
3. All Along The Watchtower
4. Under The Red Sky
5. Tangled Up In Blue
6. Silvio (Bob Dylan & Robert Hunter)
7. Simple Twist Of Fate
8. Little Moses (Bert A. Williams/Earle C. Jones)
9. Boots Of Spanish Leather
10. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
11. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
12. Unbelievable
13. Man In The Long Black Coat
14. The Times They Are A-Changin’
15. Maggie’s Farm

16. Ballad Of A Thin Man
17. Highway 61 Revisited
18. It Ain’t Me, Babe

Concert # 434 of The Never-Ending Tour. Concert # 18 of the 1992 Late Summer Tour Of US And Canada. 1992 concert # 70.

Concert # 4 with the 8th Never-Ending Tour band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar), John Jackson (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), Ian Wallace (drums), Winston Watson (drums & percussion).

8, 9, 18 Bob Dylan (acoustic guitar & vocal).

10 Bob Dylan (acoustic guitar & vocal), Tony Garnier (bass).

11 Bob Dylan (acoustic guitar & vocal), Tony Garnier (bass), Ian Wallace (drums).

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 18 Bob Dylan harmonica.

6 Bucky Baxter (mandolin).

BobTalk:

Thank you everybody! Give my band a hand too!! (after Maggie’s Farm).

6 new songs (33%) compared to previous concert. 1 new song for this tour.

Stereo audience recording, 115 minutes.

Session info updated 15 December 1992.

6 thoughts on “Bob Dylan – Pelham, AL (09/11/92)

  1. Love this show!
    This place is maybe 8 miles up the road..
    Was up north back then, would have loved to have been there.

  2. Feel I should say something brief as I suggested this tour for posting.
    Well it’s never less than interesting, Bob is always interested and committed. Doesn’t ever hit the highs of the Princeton 89-90 tour leg below, nonetheless recommended, and particularly so for people who like the classics (incl the acoustic set) played ‘straight’. Great for fans of Watchtower (all of us surely) played straight and hard.
    Bit hit and miss in places, but Bob is always reaching for something and when it comes together it is really good, plenty of great harmonica too
    Definitely worth prioritizing over 91,93, and probably the hard rockin’ 94-96 period also

  3. Yikes, a few obsevations
    First an irrelevant ‘disclaimer; my comments above relate to ’92 tour in general. I am less familiar with these late fall shows.
    Anyway been on a musical journey today and a few purely accidental connections kept appearing. Thought I’d share ’em with you.
    This post got me in a 92 mood so I dug out my rip of the 92 Bobfest gig just weeks after the date of this show. I’ve previously commented that Bob’s perf of ‘Soon’ at the Gerschwin tribute of 99 was a one-off truly solo performance (post 86). Of course .I had forgotten the two solo trax performed here. A truly forgettable ‘Its alright Ma’ followed by a much more memorable (and on par for 92) ‘Girl Of The North Country’. I had really dug it out for the superb Willie Nelson rendition of ‘What Was It You Wanted’ with the brilliant Micky Raphael on hca, as he is on the album. Of course it was great to hear Neil’s fab straight rock perf of ‘Watchtower’ again, ref my prev comment. Also it was great, if a little sad, to see Tom and the Heartbreakers in their pomp.
    Anyway, I moved on to my rip of ‘Don’t Look Back’ (since it was to hand and in transit o it’s archive drive). Selected the outtakes bonus feature and was confronted with Bob solo performing ‘Its alright Ma’ as the author had intended!
    Great stuff and onto Pete Seeger’s 90th B’day celebration at MSG. who should appear on my screen opening up the gig proper but John Mellencamp, just as he had 4 hours earlier at Bobfest! Seeing this, and having recently watched Neil’s ‘homecoming’ webcast performance really reminded me that three decades is a long long time. However the music was still great. What does all this tell us? Well music is timeless and a great song will always endure longer than flesh and bone.
    What stands out about ’92 tour for Bob is that it is really the last tour that he didn’t feel the need to reinterpret the great songs of decades past.
    Sorry if this seems like self indulgent rambling, the connections just kept coming all evening. I spared you any analysis of the classic era Bugs Bunny cartoons I watched in the interim

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