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Volume One:
1. Gotta Serve Somebody - London, June 29, 1981
2. I Believe In You - London, June 29, 1981
3. Like A Rolling Stone - Avignon, July 25, 1981
4. I Want You - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
5. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - Houston, November 12, 1981
6. Man Gave Names To All The Animals - Houston, November 12, 1981
7. Maggie's Farm - London, June 29, 1981
8. Girl Of The North Country - Basel, July 23, 1981
9. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Houston, November 12, 1981
10. All Along The Watchtower - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
11. Barbara Allen - Birmingham, July 4, 1981
12. Watered-Down Love - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
13. Shot Of Love - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
14. Simple Twist Of Fate - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
15. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Houston, November 12, 1981
16. Forever Young - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
Introduction to Maggie's Farm - Houston, November 12, 1981
Introduction to Watered-Down Love - Columbia, June 14, 1981
Introduction to Shot Of Love - Avignon, July 25, 1981
Volume Two:
1. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Houston - November 12, 1981
2. Saved - Avignon - July 25, 1981
3. Solid Rock - Houston - November 12, 1981
4. Just Like A Woman - New Orleans - November 10, 1981
5. Dead Man, Dead Man - London - June 28, 1981
6. Heart Of Mine - Houston - November 12, 1981
7. Ballad Of A Thin Man - Birmingham - July 4, 1981
8. Jesus Is The One - Avignon - July 25, 1981
9. Lenny Bruce - Avignon - July 25, 1981
10. Let's Begin - Avignon - July 25, 1981
11. Slow Train - Avignon - July 25, 1981
12. Mr. Tambourine Man - Drammen - July 9, 1981
13. When You Gonna Wake Up? - London - June 29, 1981
14. In The Summertime - Avignon - July 25, 1981
15. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - London - June 29, 1981
16. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Basel - July 23, 1981
Introduction to Ballad Of A Thin Man - Nashville, November 14, 1981
Introduction to Lenny Bruce - London, June 26, 1981
Introduction to Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Houston, November 12, 1981
Volume Three:
1. Gotta Serve Somebody - Houston, November 12, 1981
2. I Believe In You - Drammen, July 10, 1981
3. Like A Rolling Stone - London, June 28, 1981
4. What Can I Do For You? - Birmingham, July 4, 1981
5. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Columbia, June 14, 1981
6. When He Returns - Cincinnati, November 4, 1981
7. Heart Of Mine - Drammen, July 9, 1981
8. Solid Rock - London, June 28, 1981
9. Let It Be Me - Toronto, October 29, 1981
10. Dead Man, Dead Man - Birmingham, July 4, 1981
11. It's All In The Game - Merrillville, October 19, 1981
12. Masters Of War - New Orleans, November 10, 1981
13. Abraham, Martin & John - Columbia, June 14, 1981
14. When You Gonna Wake Up? - Houston, November 12, 1981
15. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Drammen, July 9, 1981
16. City Of Gold - Birmingham, July 5, 1981
The third and final year in Bob Dylan's so-called 'gospel period' is a peculiar, unique experience. The early days of the tour were actually quite reminiscent of the preceding Musical Retrospective Tour of Fall 1980. Note the appearance on Volume Three of "Abraham, Martin & John," which was played only twice in 1981 after being featured regularly throughout the earlier tour. Other songs shared between Dylan's four appearances in the United States during June 1981 and his popular return to secular performances between November to December 1980 after a year of pure gospel were "Rise Again," "Covenant Woman" and "We Just Disagree." These tracks would disappear from the set after the singer set foot on European soil for a Summer tour, and the new year would quickly acquire its own identity.
The first two volumes here are intended to represent something of a standard show. As Paul Williams notes in his inimitable Performing Artist series of books, Bob Dylan's 1981 tours were something of an anomaly. Rather than focus on a single element of the singer's career - either a self-conscious career retrospective like 1974 or 1978, or an emphasize on recent albums like 1966 or 1975 - this year would be uncharacteristically free of such constraints. Setlists were clearly used, as many song sequences remained the same throughout the year, but the overall selection of songs would be wider than anything that had come before. 1981 was a year where the singer seems to have felt untethered by expetations: he played songs from his upcoming (or recently released) record, but didn't dwell on it, while looking to the past through a new lens.
The third volume instead focuses on tracks which didn't make the initial selection. Some of these have been included on other Thousand Highways compilations and I wanted to centralize them here. Others, like an unsuccessful yet entirely unique full-band performance of "When He Returns," are new to my collection. "Gotta Serve Somebody" represents the surprising fact that the song went from the exciting rearrangement that appeared on the Summer Tour to a more straightforward, if charmingly rendered, arrangement from the following Fall Tour. "Solid Rock" moved in the opposite direction, as it was performed in a guise reminiscent of 1979-1980 during the Summer but was rearranged as a slow funk crawl in the Fall. Other tracks appear here which sadly lacked better-quality recordings - "It's All In The Game" and "Let It Be Me" chief among these - while "Heart Of Mine" is an intriguing look at what might have been: Dylan played organ on the up-tempo Summer 1981 performances of this Shot Of Love single, but it reverted to a more standard arrangement on the Fall Tour.
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