Audio Example 12.3:

"Hard Rain," live (1980, San Francisco)

Chapter 12
Audio Example 12.3
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"Hard Rain," live (1980, San Francisco)

San Francisco, CA (Fox Warfield Theater)November 22, 1980

Listen now for the interaction between Dylan and his gospel backup singers. On this performance—the first of the Musical Retrospective Tour—Dylan sings the refrain in the every-two rhythm, which doesn't leave room for the backup singers to answer him in call-and-response fashion.