"Spanish is the Loving Tongue" is easily one of the most agonizing vocals committed to the stage by this performer, as he breathes out this passionate but doomed romance. "One More Cup Of Coffee (The Valley Below)" is a duet of singer and violin, and is the only recorded performance of this song without a band. The audience laughter during the phrase “I love you but you're strange” offer some levity to this otherwise grim meditation on a broken relationship. ![]() "Abandoned Love" is similar to the recorded take that was published on Biograph, but the intimacy of the club performance is startling. "If You See Her, Say Hello" appears with dramatically re-written lyrics, and serves as an introduction to the pained ballads of this CD. This compilation is concerned exclusively with contemporary songs. Many songs were reinvented on the Rolling Thunder Revue, but those songs are products of that era rather than rearrangements of earlier material you can find them in quantity on other live collections. The traditional songs and covers, too, reflect this theme. All original songs were composed in the same mileu, a tempestuous maelstrom of creativity that the singer experienced from 1974 to 1976. ![]() These come primarily from the Rolling Thunder Revue, though "Abandoned Love", "Hurricane", "Simple Twist of Fate" and "Oh Sister" narrowly pre-date it.
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