Bob Dylan
To Dream of Peace: The 1976 Tour Companion

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1. Positively 4th Street (Houston 1-25-76)
2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Houston 1-25-76)
3. Visions of Johanna (Lakeland 4-18-76)
4. If You See Her, Say Hello (Lakeland 4-18-76)
5. Weary Blues From Waiting (Lakeland 4-18-76)
6. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Lakeland 4-18-76)
7. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (St. Petersburg 4-20-76)
8. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (St. Petersburg 4-20-76)
9. Wild Mountain Thyme (St. Petersburg 4-20-76)
10. Shelter From the Storm (St. Petersburg 4-20-76)
11. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (Clearwater 4-22-76)
12. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Clearwater 4-22-76)
13. Dink’s Song (Gainesville 4-25-76)
14. Simple Twist of Fate (Oklahoma City 5-18-76)
15. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Oklahoma City 5-18-76)
16. Tangled Up in Blue (Fort Collins 5-23-76)

Sources:
Houston (LB-04304)
Lakeland (LB-9273)
St. Petersburg (LB-02934)
Clearwater (LB-04306)
Gainesville (No LB included; bootleg title “Going Going Gone to Gainesville”)
Oklahoma City (from Les Kokay collection; Expecting Rain download of full show compiled from multiple sources)
Fort Collins (LB 6051)

Notes:
The goal of this collection is to round up one-offs, rarities, novel arrangements, and lesser-known tracks from Bob Dylan’s 1976 tour. The idea is that a fan whose 1976 collection consists of the 4-5 common soundboards from this year (New Orleans, Fort Worth, etc.) can grab this compilation and have most of the unique songs that don’t appear on any of those more famous bootlegs. It’s not a truly complete collection of ’76 rarities, but (still being a CD guy) I found in preparing the compilation that tightening it up to a packed single disc made for a more satisfying listening journey than stretching it out to two shorter ones. So, missing are a couple of one-offs which got the ax due to sound quality (“Most Likely You Go Your Way” from 4/22 and “One Of Us Must Know” from 5/19/76), and a handful of other songs that were technically rarities for ’76 but were setlist regulars in ’75 and didn’t sound different enough in their ’76 iterations to merit bumping anything here.

What’s left is an 80-minute program of prime, if somewhat stealth, ’76 Rolling Thunder Revue. Some of these performances are well-documented on others’ compilations; some were surprises to me and hopefully will be to you, too. I have made no changes to these recordings, apart from adding fade-ins and -outs for continuity. Thanks as ever to the original tapers, the uploaders who’ve helped preserve the legacy of the recordings, and to the Bobserve website for making it so easy to sort songs by year and by times played — it made tracking these down way easier than combing endlessly through setlists (fun as that always was)!

Happy listening! KD 9/11/23