Hard Rain (1976)

1. Maggie's Farm
2. One Too Many Mornings
3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues
4. Oh, Sister
5. Lay, Lady, Lay
6. Shelter from the Storm
7. You're a Big Girl Now
8. I Threw It All Away
9. Idiot Wind

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From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:


Hard Rain [album, 1976] Dylan’s 19th album and his second live one, this once seemed a generally
poor selection from two concerts that were far from his best. After Dylan and the 1967 Greatest
Hits collection, this seemed, at the time, Dylan’s least essential album. His voice even sounded
oddly anonymous at first. Hindsight shows that this album introduces the ragged, postmodern
Bob Dylan, right from the grungy instrumental ground-pawing ahead of the start of the first number.
Moreover the running order now seems surprisingly well thought out. It represents, too, the
late phase of the historic Rolling Thunder Revue tour and captures the distinctive, bare-wired sound
of Dylan’s existential gypsy band. Stand-out track is ‘Idiot Wind’, which, as Dylan grows ever more
engaged, bursts open and pours out its brilliant venom. Some tracks are the same performances as
on the ‘Hard Rain’ TV Special, filmed in concert at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, on
May 23, 1976, but ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’, though recorded at that concert, is on this album but not
in the TV film, and four album tracks were from an earlier concert.

Best Song:
"Idiot Wind"
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric:
"Down the street the dogs are barkin'
And the day is a-gettin' dark.
As the night comes in a-fallin',
The dogs 'll lose their bark.
An' the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind"
According to Alias