Flagging Down the Double E's

Flagging Down the Double E’s

An Alternate Version of 'Hard Rain'

1976-05-16, Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX

Ray Padgett
May 16, 2026
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You’ve heard songs from this Fort Worth show even if you don’t know you have. Why? Because it’s one of the two shows used on the live album Hard Rain. Producer Don DeVito hired a mobile recording truck to record this show and Fort Collins. They used four tracks from this and five tracks from Fort Collins and, voila, Hard Rain. (Again, I’m referring to t…

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