Audio Example 11.2: "Hard Rain," first circulating recording (1962, NYC)
Chapter 11
Audio Example 11.2
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"Hard Rain," first circulating recording (1962, NYC)
New York, NY (home of Eve and Mac McKenzie) — September 20, 1962
Two nights after this impromptu performance in the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie, Dylan would give "Hard Rain" its first high-profile public performance, in Carnegie Hall. In the informal setting of the McKenzies' living room, he is somewhat freer with the rhythm than on the studio recording he would make a couple weeks later. The two versions are otherwise very similar.