Bob Dylan : Hard Rain (Expanded Edition)

OH, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN,

MY BLUE -EYED SON ?

AND WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ,

MY DARLING YOUNG ONE ?

 Hard Rain

is a live album by 

American 

singer-songwriter 

Bob Dylan,

released on

 September 13, 1976, 

by Columbia Records. 

The album was recorded

 during two concerts

 in May 1976

 during the second leg

 of the 

Rolling Thunder Revue. 

The second of these concerts 

was recorded by NBC

and released as a 

television special

 to coincide with

 the album's release.

Hard Rain

received

 mixed reviews.

Recordings and TV special

The album was partly recorded 

on May 23, 1976, 

during a concert at 

Hughes Stadium in

Fort Collins, Colorado; 

the penultimate show

 of the tour,

 the concert was also filmed 

and broadcast by NBC

as a one-hour

 television special 

in September. 

Hard Rain's release 

coincided with

 this broadcast 

Despite heavy promotion

 that placed it on

 the cover of 

TV Guide, 

NBC's television broadcast

 of the May 23rd concert 

drew 

disappointing ratings.

* Some of The tracks 

from the album  

were recorded on 

May 16, 1976, 

in Fort Worth, Texas.

Hard Rain

remains the only 

official release 

of the 1976 

Rolling Thunder tour. 

A representation of the 

earlier 1975 portion 

of the 

Rolling Thunder Revue

 was released in 2002

 on 

The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: 

Bob Dylan Live 1975, 

The Rolling Thunder Revue. 

A more comprehensive

 14-disc collection titled 

Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: 

The 1975 Live Recordings 

was released in 2019 

to coincide with the

 Netflix documentary-film 

Rolling Thunder Revue: 

A Bob Dylan Story

 by Martin Scorsese.

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