BOB DYLAN : RED BLUFF 2002

 

Disc One (73:20)

  1. Intro

  2. Rainy Day Women nos. 12 & 35

  3. You're A Big Girl Now

  4. Tombstone Blues

  5. Accidently Like A Martyr

  6. Watching The River Flow

  7. Brown Sugar

  8. My Back Pages

  9. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

  10. I Shall Be Released

  11. Cold Irons Bound

  12. One Too Many Mornings

  13. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Disc Two (77:35)

  1. Honest With Me

  2. It Ain't Me, Babe

  3. High Water (For Charley Patton)

  4. Mutineer

  5. Floater (Too Much To Ask)

  6. Summer Days

  7. Like A Rolling Stone

  8. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

  9. All Along The Watchtower
    Bonus Tracks :

  10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

  11. Every Grain Of Sand

  12. Moonlight

Label : Crystal Cat Records

Venue : Pauline Davis Pavillion, Tehama Country Fairgrounds, Red Bluff, California, USA

Date : October 7th, 2002

Quality : Audience Recording (A+)

Review (Bob's Boots) : Fantastic quality recording of one of the very best shows of the year. This show is an essential addition to any collection. The packaging includes a front cover photo of Dylan in the blue stage flood lights. We call these few Crystal Cat releases the "blue releases". There is also a nice review taken from boblinks written by Michael Smith. Many manufacturers use the contributions to boblinks in their packages without credit. It's nice to see that the Cat has the integrity to give credit to the author. Highly recommended.

Review (All Music) : As Bob Dylan's aptly named Never-Ending Tour rolls on, it seems that he often summons up his finest performances for the most unlikely, out-of-the-way venues; the Pauline Davis Pavilion - essentially a livestock arena within rural Red Bluff, CA's Tehama Fairgrounds site - certainly qualifies as off the beaten track, and indeed, the two-disc bootleg Red Bluff 2002 captures Dylan at the peak of his late-career renaissance, restoring the energy and power to a songbook tarnished by years of non-committal, often contemptuous live performances. Recorded October 7, 2002, Dylan renders both radio hits including "Like a Rolling Stone" and album cuts like "You're a Big Girl Now" with conviction and clarity, while ingenious new arrangements reanimate chestnuts like "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "One Too Many Mornings." And less than a month after longtime friend Warren Zevon announced his terminal lung cancer, Dylan also delivers a pair of thoughtful, poignant Zevon covers: "Accidentally Like a Martyr" and "Mutineer," the latter performance later officially released on the Zevon tribute disc Enjoy Every Sandwich. This much-pirated gig also surfaced on the Tambourine Man label as I Ain't No Judas, followed by another version dubbed Don't Shoot the Piano Player. Like those editions, Red Bluff 2002 features a handful of bonus tracks (from a Berkeley appearance five days later), but the quality of its sound and packaging makes it the definitive release.