Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue - Renaldo & Clara soundtrack (Les Kokay remaster)


CDR-trade -> EAC -> *.wav -> FLAC fronted -> *.flac

Size: 662mb
Soundquality: A
This 2-CDR-set was originally made and remastered by Les Kokay (thanks!).

Artwork included.

disc one:

1.  When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan /w Bob Neuwirth)
    Oct. 31 1975, Plymouth, MA, War Memorial Coliseum
2.  Mississippi Blues (Bob Dylan)
    Nov. 25 1975, Fenway, ME, A Gas Station
3.  Kaw-Liga (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
4.  Isis (Bob Dylan)
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
5.  Ballad In Plain D (Gordon Lightfoot)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
6.  In The Pines (Ronnie Hawkins)
7.  A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
8.  Fragment (Bob Dylan /w Allen Ginsberg)
9.  Nurses Song (A. Ginsberg) 
10. People Get Ready (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
11. I Want You (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
12. Need A New Sun Rising (Ronee Blakely) 
13. Salt Pork, West Virgina (Ramblin' Jack Elliot) 
14. Blues Yodel #8 (Muleskinner Blues) (Ramblin' Jack Elliot) (yodelling fragment)
15. What Will You Do When Jesus Comes (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals 
16. Little Moses (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
17. It Ain’t Me Babe (Bob Dylan)
    Nov. 20 1975, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Square Theater 
18. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan /w Roger McGuinn)
    Dec. 07 1975, Clinton, NJ, Correctional Institution For Women
19. Hurricane (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals 
20. She Belongs To Me (Bob Dylan) (over Allen Ginsberg monologue)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
21. Catfish (Rob Stoner) (over David Blue monologue)
22. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
    Nov. 21 1975, Boston, MA, Music Hall (evening show)


disc two:

1.  Diamonds & Rust (Joan Baez)
2.  If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
3.  Romance In Durango (Bob Dylan)
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
4.  One Too Many Mornings (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
5.  Snippets of dialogue
6.  House Of The Rising Sun (Bob Dylan)
    Nov. 28 1975, Quebec, Canada, hotel room
7.  One More Cup Of Coffee, Forum
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
8.  Fragment
9.  Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn) (Instrumental, electric guitar)
10. Chestnut Mare (Roger McGuinn)
11. Sara (Bob Dylan)
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
12. The Water Is Wide (Bob Dylan /w Joan Baez)
    Nov. 11 1975, Waterbury, CT, Palace Theater 
13. Catfish (Rob Stoner) 
14. Patty’s Gone To Laredo (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
15. Never Let Me Go (Bob Dylan /w Joan Baez)
    Dec. 04 1975, Montreal, Canada, Forum
16. Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Bob Dylan)
    Oct. 1975, New York City, Studio Instrumental Rentals
17 .Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan)
    Nov. 21 1975, Boston, MA, Music Hall (evening show)
18. Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan)
    Nov. 20 1975, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Square Theater 
19. Knockin’ On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan /w Roger McGuinn)
    Nov. 20 1975, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Square Theater

Notes from Les Kokay:

"As it is 25 years since Renaldo & Clara screened, I though it might be nice to give the stereo soundtrack a wider circulation (I hinted about it here, a while back). Also since Dylan is on his way to NZ soon it would be aprropriate to offer a rare gem back to the rest of the world.
The Renaldo and Clara s/t has been available on a couple of bootlegs for some time.

1. Renaldo & Clara (Norriaa) - a single CD from the film s/t (stereo), but in very poor quality and misses out some important tracks.
2. Renaldo & Clara (reference recording) 2CD - actually 2CDR, sourced from a video of the TV broadcast, so mono and also poor quality. A good selection of tracks.
These have both been re-bootlegged under different labels & covers.

I've recently remastered my own tape of the stereo film soundtrack to a 2CDR myself, and the result is significantly better quality than any of the bootlegs (IMHO). I had some difficulty about which tracks not to include. I eventually decided not to include any of the dialoge of the film (2) above included a couple of the David Blue monologues. I didn't include any of the non-dylan background music (moonlight sonata, the chipin waltz, the roadie plays, ect.) and I missed out any muic that I simply don't like listening to repeatedly (for example: In the Morning, Kaddish, God and Mama, Wilkomen).
For technical reasons I missed out Suzanne (Baez) and South Coast (Elliot) as these sounded very poor beside the other tracks. Hurricane I've edited to remove most of the dialogue, but still keep the flow of the song. BTW this Hurricane is acutally the out-take with the 'robbing the bodies' line, and not a concert performance. All the other music is included in the order of the film. It is all nice wide stereo exept for the openig track which for some reason is amost mono. The sound quality is not perfect, but it is much better than anything that has circulated before.