Bob Dylan photo by Jerry Aronson. Source: consequence.net.
Columbia/Legacy is preparing a deep dive into Bob Dylan’s second Rolling Thunder Revue leg. On November 6, the label will release The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings, a 39-disc box that gathers nearly the entire spring 1976 itinerary.
The set draws from 27 dates spanning April 18 through May 25, 1976, and includes 381 tracks in total — 371 of them previously unreleased. That scale is the point: rather than a curated “best of” from the tour, the package aims to document almost every night on the second leg.
The band lineup for the leg included Rob Stoner, Scarlet Rivera, Howie Wyeth, Gary Burke, Mick Ronson, Steven Soles, David Mansfield, and T Bone Burnett — a traveling company that mixed folk roots with rock muscle and violin color.
Consequence detailed the November 6 street date after the mid-September announcement, positioning the release as one of the denser archival Dylan projects in recent years. For collectors, the headline numbers — 39 discs, 371 unheard performances out of 381 — matter as much as any single setlist highlight.
The 1976 leg has long lived in the shadow of the better-mythologized 1975 tour, partly because official audio has been scarce relative to the lore. A near-complete sweep of April–May 1976 changes that calculus: fans can finally compare nights, guests, and arrangements across the full stretch instead of relying on bootlegs and the televised Hard Rain snapshot.
With the Fort Worth vinyl arriving alongside the mammoth CD/box edition and a freshly mixed “Going, Going, Gone” as a tasting note, Legacy is offering both the exhaustive archive and a more approachable entry point. Either way, November 6 puts the second Rolling Thunder Revue back on the map with documentary ambition rather than nostalgia packaging alone.
The same day, Legacy will also issue a 3xLP edition of the complete May 16, 1976 Fort Worth concert, plus a remixed multi-track preview of “Going, Going, Gone.” Separately, the box preserves the Fort Collins, May 23 performance that later fed the Hard Rain NBC special — a useful anchor for listeners who know that broadcast more than the surrounding run.
Guest appearances thread through the recordings. Joan Baez, Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott all surface across the tour documents, underscoring how porous and communal the Rolling Thunder shows could feel.