Video Example 11.5: "Hard Rain," live (1976, Fort Collins, CO)
Chapter 11
Video Example 11.5
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"Hard Rain," live (1976, Fort Collins, CO)
Fort Collins, CO (Colorado State University, Hughes Stadium) — May 23, 1976
Note how Dylan turns around to cue a different timing for the "it's a hard" refrain. The band begins with the every-two timing, but Dylan wants it every-four. The slower timing heightens this version's sense of burdened progression, of slow but steady progress up the mountain of the refrain.