Bob Dylan - 1994-08-16 - Lewiston, NY (ALD)

Bob Dylan

1994-08-16

Art Park

Lewiston, NY

ALD Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Jokerman

02. If Not For You

03. All Along The Watchtower

04. I Don't Believe You

05. Tangled up in Blue

06. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

07. Mama, You Been on My Mind

08. Masters Of War

09. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

10. God Knows

11. Man In The Long Black Coat

12. Maggie's Farm > Band Introduction > audience

Encore:

13. Ballad Of A Thin Man

14. Girl From The North Country

Bob Dylan - 1994-08-16 - Lewiston, NY (ALD)

In the decade of the 1990s, Bob Dylan would go 7 years, from 1990 to 1997, without releasing any new material. In that period, however, he spent time delving back into his folk rock foots. He released 2 albums, Good As I Been To You in 1992 and World Gone Wrong in 1994, composed entirely of covers of traditional folk tunes. Dylan performed all songs on both albums solo, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica. They were Dylan's first entirely solo, acoustic albums since Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964, 3 decades earlier. His return to his folk roots seemed to invigorate Dylan’s live performances in 1994. Several shows from that year, including his August concert at Woodstock and his October shows at Roseland Ballroom in New York received rave reviews. Add this show from August 16, 1994, 26 years ago today, from Lewiston, to that list. Download this soundboard recording to hear for a reinvigorated Dylan reach back to his roots.

Bob Dylan/Jerry Garcia Connections

• The Grateful Dead, as well as Jerry Garcia in his solo shows, made covers of Dylan tunes such as Maggie’s Farm, All Along The Watchtower, Stuck Inside of Mobile, Tangled Up In Blue, Quinn The Eskimo, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) and When I Paint My Masterpiece, just to name a few, staples of their live sets. 
• In 2005, Rhino Records released a compilation disc entitled Garcia plays Dylan, featuring Jerry playing live versions of 18 different Dylan tunes either as a member of the Grateful Dead or at a solo show,  It was a companion to an album entitled Postcards From The Hanging, released 3 years earlier, that featured 13 Dylan tunes as covered by the Grateful Dead, some with Bob Weir or Phil Lesh on vocals.
• Robert Hunter, Garcia's song writing partner,, co-wrote 2 songs on Dylan’s 1988 album, Down in The Groove. 
• In 1987, Dylan and The Dead played 6 shows together, where the Dead opened with their material, then served as Dylan’s backing band for a closing set. 
• In both 1986 and 1995, Dylan served as the lead-in band for several Dead concerts. He also made several guest appearances at their shows, most notably a February 12 1989 show in Los Angeles and a October 17, 1994 performance in New York. 
• Fittingly, when Bob Weir played a concert the same night his brother in music, Garcia, passed away, the song he chose to close the night was Dylan’s Knockin on Heaven’s Door. That's the very same song that Jerry played for the encore at my favorite Grateful Dead concert on September 18, 1987.