Shelter from the Storm

From the desk of Ned P. Rauch:

I like this a lot. "Shelter from the Storm," 1976. This performance is on Hard Rain, but to see it is a big deal. Until I'd watched this, I hadn't known that A) it was Dylan playing slide; B) he was playing a National "Map" guitar (now reissued by Eastwood as the Airline); and C) he was sporting such interesting headgear. If you watch the clip in HD and stop it at 27 seconds, you can see what looks like "Camus" printed in caps on the top of Dylan's guitar. That'd be something, wouldn't it, if he'd named his guitar after the French writer/thinker? It'd be believable, certainly. Remember when Dubya claimed that he'd been reading "The Stranger" over the summer? That was a stretch.

Anyway, the Rolling Thunder Revue, the tour during which this clip was recorded, was phenomenal. I can think of many worse ways to spend a few hours than by listening to recordings from the tour and digging up clips of it on Youtube. Check out "Maggie's Farm," too.

(Photo is a still from the clip this post is about. I'm not sure whom to thank for it. Maybe Bob.)