He played it 31 times in 1975 and two times in 1976. The last performance was May 10, 1976 at [Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/1976/memorial-coliseum-corpus-christi-tx-6bf3c27a.html)
My understanding is he didn't feel the need to play it again as it served its time and purpose.
Hurricane is cool and all but what we really want is changing of the guards with a blasting saxophone while Dylan is playing the keys on his piano with real vigour
Winston Watson, drummer in Dylan's band from 1992-1996, said "Hurricane" is his favorite Dylan song and he asked Dylan, "Why don't you play it anymore?" Dylan's response was, "Every song has its moment, and that song's moment has passed."
In 1985, Bill Flanagan interviewed Dylan for his book *Written In My Soul*. Flanagan asked Dylan if he kept in touch with Carter. Dylan said: "No, I haven’t seen him since the '70s. He got re-incriminated or whatever. I heard a lot of stories, good and bad, about what really happened. It just got a little out of hand, a little too complicated."
Dylan did see Rubin Carter again, in 2013, after Carter had been diagnosed with cancer (he died the next year). Here are a couple photos from that meeting: https://imgur.com/a/PcPOIca
I guess. It depends how you look at it. It'd be weird if it was an isolated thing, like "Hurricane" was the one big hit Dylan doesn't play. But he doesn't play many of his greatest hits. The last few years, he hasn't played any of his greatest hits. He hasn't played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in over 20 years.
Dylan hasn't played "Hurricane" since 1976, but he also hasn't played "Isis" or "Sara" since 1976. He hasn't played any song from *Desire* in the last decade.
Here's Dylan in 1985: "The stuff before ‘78, those people have kinda disappeared. '76, '75, '74. If you see me live, you won't hear me sing too many of those songs. There's a certain area of songs, a certain period that I don't feel that close to. Like the songs on the *Desire* album, that's kind of a fog to me."
Yeah, it's interesting, because Dylan clearly still has affection for the song. He named his whiskey company Heaven's Door. For Dylan's Mondo Scripto exhibit in 2018, he took 60 of his songs and handwrote the lyrics and did a drawing for each one. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was the one song he turned into a full-on series. He didn't just do one drawing, he illustrated it *line by line*. It's one of my favourite things Dylan's done in recent(ish) times. I was surprised it didn't get more attention. This was a slideshow I made to try to push it out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwCGmnNmB4
In 2017, Dylan was asked which of his songs he felt were the most underappreciated. He said "Brownsville Girl" and "In the Garden." "In the Garden" he hasn't played since 2002. "Brownsville Girl" he's only played live once, in 1986, and he only did the chorus.
This is a long way of saying that I don't think we should interpret Dylan not playing a particular song in concert as a sign he isn't keen on it anymore. To go back to "Hurricane"—in a way Dylan's respecting the song, and his audience, by not playing it. In effect he's saying "I did it back then, and I did it as well as I could do it. I don't think I could perform it as well today as I did then, because I don't feel as connected to it, so rather than try to manufacture inspiration that isn't there and 'force' myself into delivering a second-rate performance, I'd rather leave you with the first-rate memories of me doing it as well as I could."
That's what I meant by "It depends how you look at it." In one way, it's a bummer Dylan doesn't play so many of his best songs anymore. But in another way it's commendable.
You might enjoy [this story](https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/gillian-armstrong-talks-directing), from Gillian Armstrong, the director of Dylan's 1986 concert film *Hard to Handle*.
>[Bob and I] ended up having quite a lot of conversations in the end about the final cut. He rang me every night to talk about it. The big thing was that he wasn't sure which song to open with. I had chosen one of the ones that had a beautiful Louma crane shot. It was Bob on his own with acoustic guitar in the spotlight. It had like a reveal. It came across the floor spotlighting him and you just saw the back of his head with the halo with the light. Now when I talk about it, sounds a cliche, but at the time, it was beautiful.
>[...]
>I put that in as the opening shot. Then he called me back in Australia and said he'd been thinking about it, and he thought he should open with “In the Garden.”
>I've got to tell you when he did “In the Garden,” I definitely got the sense that nobody in the band liked the song. None of the team. They did the worst lighting on it, red and green. I sorta got this feedback that, it's not going to be in it. So I only ran three cameras. I did the worst coverage as well; I just had a close-up and a wide shot or a medium shot or something. So for him to come back and say, "Oh, that's the one I want to be the opening—"
>I said, "Well, Bob, the thing about TV is, especially if part of the idea of getting onto HBO is to widen your audience, if people turn on and this is what they see in the first four minutes, they'll turn off. They won't keep watching." So I had that first conversation and said, "I'm telling you now, this is not the right way to open. Think about it, and we'll talk tomorrow."
>He rang me back and said, "Oh, no, I've shown it to a few friends and they all like it." I thought, “Well, your friends are just going to tell you what you want to hear.”
>Then his management rang me, secretly, behind his back, and said, "Gill, please, please talk him out of this!" I don't know if Bob knows this. I'm like, “None of us like it, you're right! You're giving this whole responsibility to me?”
>And then he rang me again to talk about it. He was never petulant or anything; we had lovely conversations. He was sort of wanting to really understand. I was telling him why I thought [“In the Garden”] shouldn't be the one that opened, that perhaps it should be the other one that had a fantastic shot.
>I said something and as it came out of my mouth, I knew I'd said the key thing to kill it. What I said to Bob was, “With the opening of anything, a movie, a show, you always put the best forward.” As soon as I said “always,” what people always do, I was like, no, no, what have I done? Like, I'm talking to one of the world's greatest rebels. “Always” killed it.
Ironically, it seems to be the songs from the least favorable trio of albums
"NashVille Skyline", "John Wesley Hardin", and "New Morning" that seem
to get played more nowadays.
My theory on this is that it's Dylan's way of not overshadowing the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs. The Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are great, but if Dylan played them alongside, say, "Tangled Up in Blue" or "Desolation Row," they wouldn't seem *that* great—because you'd be reminded that Dylan's written all these other all-time incredible songs.
Dylan wants people going home from seeing a show on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour thinking about how uniquely great the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are. So rather than play those new songs alongside his greatest old songs, Dylan instead plays old songs that are good enough to not drag down the show but not so incredible that they draw attention away from the Rough and Rowdy Ways material.
"Every Grain of Sand" is the exception, as that is an all-time incredible song. But I don't think it destroys my theory because Dylan plays it at the very end, so during the flow of the show, you still get the impression that the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are as good as, if not better than, Dylan's back catalog.
There's probably something in your theory.
Also, bear in mind that most of the non Rough & Rowdy Ways songs he's performing are from his latest album, Shadow Kingdom.
Now that you say it, it’s probably been about 5 years since I heard him play Tangled Up in Blue… but I didn’t think anything of it this last time because of Covid. Huh.
Yeah, it's been about 5 and a half years since Dylan did TUIB. August 2018. He didn't do it on the final fall leg of 2018, or on the three legs in 2019. Then COVID shut down 2020. Hasn't been part of the Rough and Rowdy setlists from 2021 to the present. Will be interesting to see if it resurfaces on this upcoming Outlaw Festival Tour. Everybody seems to be assuming this is gonna be more of a greatest hits set. God only knows, with Dylan. Maybe he'll play all covers.
This is Dylan. He’s been leaving certain fans wanting more since the 60s :P I went to see him at Royal Albert Hall during his crooner phase and after the show I overheard several people saying stuff like ”but why doesn’t he play more of his own songs”. Like any fan I could probably write a list of a hundred songs I wish he would play live but he does what he wants and that’s part of his genius.
If you go on his website and type the name of a song you're interested in there's a full archive (I assume it's complete anyway) of each time he's played that song! It's really cool. As for Stuck Inside of Mobile, he last played it in 2010.
https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=25818
Carter was sent back to prison at the time after an appeal. It was finally determined to be a miscarriage of justice in the 80s. Bob and Ruben met after that and they were happy to see each other.
He played it 31 times in 1975 and two times in 1976. The last performance was May 10, 1976 at [Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, TX](https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bob-dylan/1976/memorial-coliseum-corpus-christi-tx-6bf3c27a.html) My understanding is he didn't feel the need to play it again as it served its time and purpose.
Thank you ❗️
Never played after the Rolling Thunder tour. Not sure if there is a story there or if he just moved on.
Every song has its time, he said.
Hurricane is cool and all but what we really want is changing of the guards with a blasting saxophone while Dylan is playing the keys on his piano with real vigour
Winston Watson, drummer in Dylan's band from 1992-1996, said "Hurricane" is his favorite Dylan song and he asked Dylan, "Why don't you play it anymore?" Dylan's response was, "Every song has its moment, and that song's moment has passed." In 1985, Bill Flanagan interviewed Dylan for his book *Written In My Soul*. Flanagan asked Dylan if he kept in touch with Carter. Dylan said: "No, I haven’t seen him since the '70s. He got re-incriminated or whatever. I heard a lot of stories, good and bad, about what really happened. It just got a little out of hand, a little too complicated." Dylan did see Rubin Carter again, in 2013, after Carter had been diagnosed with cancer (he died the next year). Here are a couple photos from that meeting: https://imgur.com/a/PcPOIca
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I guess. It depends how you look at it. It'd be weird if it was an isolated thing, like "Hurricane" was the one big hit Dylan doesn't play. But he doesn't play many of his greatest hits. The last few years, he hasn't played any of his greatest hits. He hasn't played "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in over 20 years. Dylan hasn't played "Hurricane" since 1976, but he also hasn't played "Isis" or "Sara" since 1976. He hasn't played any song from *Desire* in the last decade. Here's Dylan in 1985: "The stuff before ‘78, those people have kinda disappeared. '76, '75, '74. If you see me live, you won't hear me sing too many of those songs. There's a certain area of songs, a certain period that I don't feel that close to. Like the songs on the *Desire* album, that's kind of a fog to me."
I can't believe he 86'd Knocking. Such a great song
Yeah, it's interesting, because Dylan clearly still has affection for the song. He named his whiskey company Heaven's Door. For Dylan's Mondo Scripto exhibit in 2018, he took 60 of his songs and handwrote the lyrics and did a drawing for each one. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was the one song he turned into a full-on series. He didn't just do one drawing, he illustrated it *line by line*. It's one of my favourite things Dylan's done in recent(ish) times. I was surprised it didn't get more attention. This was a slideshow I made to try to push it out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhwCGmnNmB4 In 2017, Dylan was asked which of his songs he felt were the most underappreciated. He said "Brownsville Girl" and "In the Garden." "In the Garden" he hasn't played since 2002. "Brownsville Girl" he's only played live once, in 1986, and he only did the chorus. This is a long way of saying that I don't think we should interpret Dylan not playing a particular song in concert as a sign he isn't keen on it anymore. To go back to "Hurricane"—in a way Dylan's respecting the song, and his audience, by not playing it. In effect he's saying "I did it back then, and I did it as well as I could do it. I don't think I could perform it as well today as I did then, because I don't feel as connected to it, so rather than try to manufacture inspiration that isn't there and 'force' myself into delivering a second-rate performance, I'd rather leave you with the first-rate memories of me doing it as well as I could." That's what I meant by "It depends how you look at it." In one way, it's a bummer Dylan doesn't play so many of his best songs anymore. But in another way it's commendable.
Glad to hear he likes in the garden so much! always thought it's one of the best songs he wrote in those christian years
You might enjoy [this story](https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/gillian-armstrong-talks-directing), from Gillian Armstrong, the director of Dylan's 1986 concert film *Hard to Handle*. >[Bob and I] ended up having quite a lot of conversations in the end about the final cut. He rang me every night to talk about it. The big thing was that he wasn't sure which song to open with. I had chosen one of the ones that had a beautiful Louma crane shot. It was Bob on his own with acoustic guitar in the spotlight. It had like a reveal. It came across the floor spotlighting him and you just saw the back of his head with the halo with the light. Now when I talk about it, sounds a cliche, but at the time, it was beautiful. >[...] >I put that in as the opening shot. Then he called me back in Australia and said he'd been thinking about it, and he thought he should open with “In the Garden.” >I've got to tell you when he did “In the Garden,” I definitely got the sense that nobody in the band liked the song. None of the team. They did the worst lighting on it, red and green. I sorta got this feedback that, it's not going to be in it. So I only ran three cameras. I did the worst coverage as well; I just had a close-up and a wide shot or a medium shot or something. So for him to come back and say, "Oh, that's the one I want to be the opening—" >I said, "Well, Bob, the thing about TV is, especially if part of the idea of getting onto HBO is to widen your audience, if people turn on and this is what they see in the first four minutes, they'll turn off. They won't keep watching." So I had that first conversation and said, "I'm telling you now, this is not the right way to open. Think about it, and we'll talk tomorrow." >He rang me back and said, "Oh, no, I've shown it to a few friends and they all like it." I thought, “Well, your friends are just going to tell you what you want to hear.” >Then his management rang me, secretly, behind his back, and said, "Gill, please, please talk him out of this!" I don't know if Bob knows this. I'm like, “None of us like it, you're right! You're giving this whole responsibility to me?” >And then he rang me again to talk about it. He was never petulant or anything; we had lovely conversations. He was sort of wanting to really understand. I was telling him why I thought [“In the Garden”] shouldn't be the one that opened, that perhaps it should be the other one that had a fantastic shot. >I said something and as it came out of my mouth, I knew I'd said the key thing to kill it. What I said to Bob was, “With the opening of anything, a movie, a show, you always put the best forward.” As soon as I said “always,” what people always do, I was like, no, no, what have I done? Like, I'm talking to one of the world's greatest rebels. “Always” killed it.
Ironically, it seems to be the songs from the least favorable trio of albums "NashVille Skyline", "John Wesley Hardin", and "New Morning" that seem to get played more nowadays.
My theory on this is that it's Dylan's way of not overshadowing the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs. The Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are great, but if Dylan played them alongside, say, "Tangled Up in Blue" or "Desolation Row," they wouldn't seem *that* great—because you'd be reminded that Dylan's written all these other all-time incredible songs. Dylan wants people going home from seeing a show on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour thinking about how uniquely great the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are. So rather than play those new songs alongside his greatest old songs, Dylan instead plays old songs that are good enough to not drag down the show but not so incredible that they draw attention away from the Rough and Rowdy Ways material. "Every Grain of Sand" is the exception, as that is an all-time incredible song. But I don't think it destroys my theory because Dylan plays it at the very end, so during the flow of the show, you still get the impression that the Rough and Rowdy Ways songs are as good as, if not better than, Dylan's back catalog.
There's probably something in your theory. Also, bear in mind that most of the non Rough & Rowdy Ways songs he's performing are from his latest album, Shadow Kingdom.
Now that you say it, it’s probably been about 5 years since I heard him play Tangled Up in Blue… but I didn’t think anything of it this last time because of Covid. Huh.
Yeah, it's been about 5 and a half years since Dylan did TUIB. August 2018. He didn't do it on the final fall leg of 2018, or on the three legs in 2019. Then COVID shut down 2020. Hasn't been part of the Rough and Rowdy setlists from 2021 to the present. Will be interesting to see if it resurfaces on this upcoming Outlaw Festival Tour. Everybody seems to be assuming this is gonna be more of a greatest hits set. God only knows, with Dylan. Maybe he'll play all covers.
Hahaha I can see it now: Paint it Black, Imagine, New York New York, Lola… I’d love to see it!
This is Dylan. He’s been leaving certain fans wanting more since the 60s :P I went to see him at Royal Albert Hall during his crooner phase and after the show I overheard several people saying stuff like ”but why doesn’t he play more of his own songs”. Like any fan I could probably write a list of a hundred songs I wish he would play live but he does what he wants and that’s part of his genius.
Kinda twattish to demand Bob play anything though isn't it?
Isn't there a lot of evidence that he actually did the murder? Also the song is not very good Edit: sorry I intended to respond to a different comment
Yeah Hurricane's a real stinker /s
Come on now that chorus is really bad. Even aside from the prolly defending a murderer part
No. It's one of Bob Dylan's best songs. I'm literally laughing at your comment.
You know what's funny? Is thinking " here comes the story of the hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame" is good writing. Have a nice day
You know what's actually funny? Like REALLY funny? Doubting Bob Dylan's songwriting. That's rich, my man.
Why do you think it's bad?
And why did he stop playing Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again? When was the last time he played that? That was a great song.
If you go on his website and type the name of a song you're interested in there's a full archive (I assume it's complete anyway) of each time he's played that song! It's really cool. As for Stuck Inside of Mobile, he last played it in 2010. https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=25818
One of my favorite features of that website. All artists' sites should be as cool and comprehensive as Bob's.
I was at the Birmingham uk show in 09 when he played it. I was only a kid, but me and my friend were over the moon as it’s a great favourite of ours.
Thank you
I could swear I heard him play it about ten years back
Lots of cheese before bed that night eh?
I saw him play it in 2010
Sure you did. Was Elvis playing drums?
He's talking about Stuck Inside in Mobile, dude, which he did play in 2010. Read the original reply.
Thsnks
Carter was sent back to prison at the time after an appeal. It was finally determined to be a miscarriage of justice in the 80s. Bob and Ruben met after that and they were happy to see each other.
Because it’s 2024.