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Bob Dylan announces first UK tour in over five years

The forthcoming shows come as part of the 'Rough And Rowdy Ways' world tour

Bob Dylan has announced his first UK headline shows in over five years – tickets will be available from here .

The legendary musician’s upcoming stint on these shores forms part of his ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ world tour, which started in the US in late 2021 .

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Dylan is due to hit the road once again this October, kicking things off with an intimate four-night billing at the London Palladium (October 19, 20, 23, 34).

He’ll then visit the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff (26), the Bonus Arena in Hull (27) and Motorpoint Arena Nottingham (28) before ending the run with two consecutive performances at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow (30, 31).

Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday (July 15) – purchase yours from here and see the full live itinerary below.

A string of European dates is scheduled between September 25 and October 17, with stop-offs including Oslo, Paris (three nights), Brussels and Amsterdam (two nights).

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The forthcoming shows are billed as “non-phone events”, per a press release. Audience members will be required to put their mobile devices into a Yondr bag, which they can keep with them until after the performance.

Dylan’s ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ world tour resumed in the US back in March . His latest concert took place in Denver, Colorado last Wednesday (July 6).

The singer-songwriter hasn’t performed in the United Kingdom since he co-headlined London’s BST Hyde Park in 2019 alongside Neil Young . Prior to that, he brought his ‘Never Ending Tour’ to the UK in 2017.

Earlier this month, a one-of-a-kind re-recording of Bob Dylan singing his 1963 classic ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ sold at auction for £1.48million ($1.78million).

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Bob Dylan’s 2022 UK tour dates: How to buy tickets

13 July 2022, 15:57

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The Like A Rolling Stone icon has announced his first UK tour in over five years. Find out where he's playing and how to buy tickets.

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Bob Dylan has confirmed UK shows for 2022.

The Like A Rolling Stone singer's Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour, which see him travel across the globe and visit the UK with dates which include four nights at the London Palladium.

The shows mark the first for the Nobel Prize for Literature winner in the country since he co-headlined BST Hyde Park in 2019 with Neil Young.

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What are Bob Dylan's 2022's UK Tour dates?

Wednesday 19th October 2022: London Palladium

Thursday 20th October 2022: London Palladium

Sunday 23rd October 2022: London Palladium

Monday 24th October 2022: London Palladium

Wednesday 25th October 2022: Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

Thursday 27th October 2022: Hull Bonus Arena

Friday 29th October 2022: Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

Sunday 30th October 2022: Glasgow Armadillo

Monday 31st October 2022: Glasgow Armadillo

How to buy tickets to Bob Dylan's 2022 UK Tour:

Tickets go on general sale from ticketmaster,co.uk on Friday 15th July from 10am.

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Bob Dylan announces first UK tour in five years and here's how to get tickets

The legendary singer will do nine shows in the UK

• 10:29, 13 JUL 2022

Bob Dylan has delighted fans by announcing his first UK tour in five years. The American singer will play nine shows in the UK as part of his 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' world tour.

The ‘ Rough And Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour’ began last December in Milwaukee, USA. Since then, Bob Dylan has played 74 stellar concerts all over the country, performing to tens of thousands of rapturous fans all delighted to see the genius songwriter and mercurial musician live.

This autumn, the tour arrives in Europe, with the first of four intimate shows at London’s famous Palladium Theatre beginning on October 19. Thereafter Bob Dylan will travel to Cardiff to play the Motorpoint Arena, followed by concerts in Hull, Nottingham and two final shows in Glasgow.

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The legendary singer's forthcoming shows are billed as “non-phone events”, and audience members will be required to put their mobile devices into a Yondr bag, which they can keep with them until after the performance.

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday, July 15 at 10am via Ticketmaster. All shows will start at 8pm.

Bob Dylan UK tour dates

• October 19, 2022 - London Palladium - tickets HERE
• October 20, 2022 - London Palladium - tickets HERE
• October 23, 2022 - London Palladium - tickets HERE
• October 24, 2022 - London Palladium - tickets HERE
• October 26, 2022 - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena - tickets HERE

October 27, 2022 - Hull Bonus Arena - tickets HERE

October 28, 2022 - Nottingham Motorpoint Arena - tickets HERE

October 30, 2022 - Glasgow Armadillo - tickets HERE

October 31, 2022 - Glasgow Armadillo - tickets HERE

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Bob Dylan Live At The London Palladium, Reviewed!

The rough and rowdy ways tour arrives in the uk. magic ensues..

You join us at a place of unusual serenity. A kind of psychotropic heathaze has descended on the London Palladium, and Bob Dylan has been playing Key West (Philosopher Pirate) for what feels, very pleasurably, like an eternity. The groove is lazily seductive, the promise mantric. “Key West is the place to be,” Dylan sings, and he’s singing incredibly well, “If you’re looking for immortality.”

At a distant point in the past, hard to pinpoint now in what has become something of a liminal state, Dylan and his exceptional revitalised band arrived onstage at the Palladium for the first of four shows, and the opening night of their first British tour in five years. Dylan was last in London – as far as we know - in the summer of 2019, when he played a fine, traditionally capricious sort-of-hits set in Hyde Park that made his support act, Neil Young appear amusingly eager-to-please.

Since then, of course, things have changed, not least Dylan’s musical orientation. Parts of that Hyde Park set certainly indicated a kind of spectral realignment: the increased prominence of Donnie Herron on fiddle and steel; Charlie Sexton’s disco licks on I Can’t Wait; a Hot Club De Nashville high step to the likes of When I Paint My Masterpiece (one tangible link to tonight’s show). Plenty more of it, though, remained rooted in those enchanted roadhouse vamps that sustained Dylan so well, with radical tweaks, through the later years of the Neverending Tour.

In 2006, Robert Forster wrote a smart critique of Modern Times where he questioned the production and arrangement decisions of Dylan in his Jack Frost guise. “Dylan is arrangement-shy and always has been,” Forster observed. “A typical Dylan-produced song, in the studio or on stage, consists of all the musicians starting together, playing together and finishing when Dylan gives them the nod. No one sits out. No one comes in just for a chorus.” With 2020’s Rough And Rowdy Ways, however, and 2021’s Shadow Kingdom online broadcast, Dylan unveiled an enhanced musical chiaroscuro, where his arrangements allowed new space, light and shade. Instruments faded in and out of the mix, Dylan’s voice – renewed! – presiding over his bands on stealth manoeuvres.

This, magically, is how Dylan and his current accomplices – the faithful Tony Garnier (bass) and Herron joined by Bob Britt and Doug Lancio on guitars and the terrific Charley Drayton on drums – sound tonight. Shadow Kingdom’s subtitle, The Early Songs Of Bob Dylan – now signals something of an, at least temporary, endpoint; a chapter closing. Most of those early songs are out of circulation for the moment.

Instead, as you’ll know if you’ve seen one of the Rough And Rowdy Ways shows since they began last November in Milwaukee, Dylan has fixed a live course through his most recent album. Nine songs, only missing out Murder Most Foul, augmented by a few unchanging selections from less visited corners of the archive.

These are songs that hang in the air, possessed of uncanny dimensions. They are also ones whose inherent minimalism pushes Dylan to the fore. His voice, it’s important to note, is beautiful. There’s a control and nuance as he incants the likes of Black Rider or the tainted supper club novelty rock of My Own Version Of You, with none of those sudden tonal jerks, cracks and splutters. Such intimacy from Dylan is spectacularly weird, not least as he playfully leans in to the arcane boasts of I Contain Multitudes. If he remains utterly unknowable, there’s a new suspicion here that he might possibly be mischievous rather than terrifying company in private.

The blues – False Prophet, Goodbye Jimmy Reed – are louche and silvery, the magnificent new standard of I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You an elegantly wasted sway, Drayton’s constantly inventive drumming keeping these songs moving forward even as they seem blissfully determined to linger in one spot. But besides Dylan’s voice, his own keyboard playing is at the core of most things now. Where once his musical contributions would be eccentric and supplementary, now his upright piano lines – delivered in a bell-like tone that at once recalls a tack piano and a calliope – navigate the melodies, too.

In the middle of the stage rather than lurking in the wings, Dylan appears a man reconciled to the idea of himself as the main attraction. He even seems to be having a good time. There is chat, not entirely comprehensible from Row L, which other witnesses will later report as a Beatles joke: "Is this the place where you're supposed to rattle your jewellery?"

It's not all, of course, a spooked reverie. An opening Watching The River Flow is punctuated by stinging wild mercury guitar lines, Gotta Serve Somebody a tougher, sinewy boogie. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight teeters precariously on the edge of a precipice, a reinvention of American tradition that seems as close to Tom Waits as anything else, before barrelling into a kind of steamy mambo rock. As Dylan hammers out a piano solo, joyous and transporting, it’s another extraordinary moment in an evening full of them.

It's an evening, though, that ultimately resides in that storied Key West of the soul. Arrangements have moved around over the course of the Rough And Rowdy Ways tour, as ever. But mostly, with the focused and unchanging setlist, it feels as if Dylan has come to a place of rest. Artistic stability is not something which traditionally suits the great questing artists. But as the song stretches out to “Key West on the horizon line”, it suggests Dylan’s current phase isn’t just about taking stock of a complicated life, it’s about finding somewhere comfortable enough to hang out for a while. After all these years on the move, literally and metaphorically, who knew that creative contentment would suit him so well?

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Emerging from new york city's greenwich village folk scene in the early 1960s, dylan became a counter-cultural figure with the release of a series of political anthems.

Bob Dylan has announced that he will tour in the UK for the first time in five years.

Emerging from New York City’s Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, Dylan became a counter-cultural figure with the release of a series of political anthems.

But where will be perform? Here’s everything you need to know.

When and where will the concerts be?

The US folk and rock singer, 81, will play nine dates in October 2022 as part of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour, which began in December in Milwaukee.

He will play four nights at the London Palladium before visiting Cardiff, Hull and Nottingham for arena shows, then closing with two nights in Glasgow.

The concerts will take place between Wednesday October 19 and Monday 31, with tickets going on sale on Friday July 15.

The dates are as follows:

• London Palladium – October 19, 20, 23 and 34
• Motorpoint Arena Cardiff – October 26
• Bonus Arena in Hull – October 27
• Motorpoint Arena Nottingham – October 28
• SEC Armadillo in Glasgow – October 30 and 31

Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, has seen his songs be recorded more than 6,000 times, with artists as varied as The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and Adele finding both commercial and critical success with covers.

He has to date sold more than 125 million records globally and won a best original song Oscar in 2001 for Things Have Changed, which he penned for the film Wonder Boys.

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What can we expect?

Dylan has already played 74 US dates as part of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, in support of his UK number one 39th studio album.

The shows have drawn upon his vast back catalogue as well as songs from the critically-acclaimed new album.

All the shows will be non-phone events, with the audience required to lock their phones in a Yondr bag for the duration of the performance.

Dylan, who has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize for literature during a 60-year career, last toured the UK in April and May 2017 as part of his Never Ending Tour .

That run of shows saw him mix classic tracks such as ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ with newer material.

How can I buy tickets?

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday July 15.

They will be available through his website and on Ticketmaster .

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Bob Dylan announces first UK tour in more than five years

He last toured the country in 2017 as part of his Never Ending Tour.

Bob Dylan has announced his first UK tour in more than five years.

The US folk and rock singer, 81, will play nine dates in October 2022 as part of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour, which began in December in Milwaukee.

He will play four nights at the London Palladium before visiting Cardiff, Hull and Nottingham for arena shows, then closing with two nights in Glasgow.

The concerts will take place between Wednesday October 19 and Monday 31, with tickets going on sale on Friday July 15.

Dylan, who has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize for literature during a 60-year career, last toured the UK in April and May 2017 as part of his Never Ending Tour.

That run of shows saw him mix classic tracks such as Blowin’ in the Wind, Highway 61 Revisited and Tangled Up In Blue with newer material.

Dylan has already played 74 US dates as part of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, in support of his UK number one 39th studio album.

The shows have drawn upon his vast back catalogue as well as songs from the critically-acclaimed new album.

All the shows will be non-phone events, with the audience required to lock their phones in a Yondr bag for the duration of the performance.

Emerging from New York City’s Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, Dylan became a counter-cultural figure with the release of a series of political anthems.

Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, was the first songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, with the Swedish academy crediting him with “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.

His songs have been recorded more than 6,000 times, with artists as varied as The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and Adele finding both commercial and critical success with covers.

Dylan has to date sold more than 125 million records globally and won a best original song Oscar in 2001 for Things Have Changed, which he penned for the film Wonder Boys.

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday July 15.

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Bob Dylan Announces UK and European 2022 Tour Dates

Today, Bob Dylan announced yet another leg of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, this time with stops across The U.K. and Europe. The string of shows are in support of his 2020 LP Rough and Rowdy Ways, and since its release, the bard has been touring extensively since the fall of 2021, announcing new dates three times since the announcement of the initial run.

The newly added shows will kick off in Oslo, on Sept. 25 and make stops at many scenic and historic cities, including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam, London and more. It’s also notable that during the tour, Dylan’s shows in the U.K. mark his first in five years.

The string of dates will wrap with a two-night Halloween run in Glasgow on Oct. 30 and 31. In Paris, Dylan will perform for three evenings at the Grand Rex; similarly, The London Palladium will welcome Dylan for four evenings, and Amsterdam’s AFAS Live will enjoy a two-night stint from the Nobel Prize laureate.

Tickets for Bob Dylan’s newly announced Rough and Rowdy Ways tour dates will be available on Friday, July 15. Find tickets here .

Bob Dylan European and U.K. Tour Dates

Sept. 25 Oslo, Norway – Spektrum

Sept. 27 Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena

Sept. 29 Gothenburg, Sweden – Scandinavium

Sept. 30 Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena

Oct. 11 Paris, France – Grand Rex

Oct. 12 Paris, France – Grand Rex

Oct. 13 Paris, France – Grand Rex

Oct. 15 Brussels, Belgium – Forest National

Oct. 16 Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live

Oct. 17 Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live

Oct. 19 London, England – The London Palladium

Oct. 20 London, England – The London Palladium

Oct. 23 London, England – The London Palladium

Oct. 24 London, England – The London Palladium

Oct. 26 Cardiff, Wales – Motorpoint Arena

Oct. 27 Hull, England – Bonus Arena

Oct. 28 Nottingham, England – Motorpoint Arena

Oct. 30 Glasgow, Scotland – SEC Armadillo

Oct. 31 Glasgow, Scotland – SEC Armadillo

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Bob Dylan review – serene show goes straight to the heart

Palladium, London With a constant sense of dramatic ebb and flow, Dylan’s sound is as distinct as ever with audacious and inventive reimaginings of his recent songs

F ifty-odd years ago, Bob Dylan was provoking his fans into furiously taking sides and berating him with a shout of “Judas!” while their political representatives snoozed through the day’s business. How times change. On the night the Houses of Parliament resounded to accusations of treachery , Dylan opens his latest UK tour with a show so serene and benevolent that it barely rattled the Palladium’s chandeliers.

Not bland, though. At 81, Dylan retains his creative energy and still insists on doing exactly what he wants. The first of four nights in London finds him pursuing the approach that characterised Rough and Rowdy Ways , his most recent album, released two years ago. Nine of its 10 expansively structured tracks are included in his 17-song set, missing only the one that gave him the first US No 1 hit single of his 60-year recording career, the 17-minute Murder Most Foul. In place of that epic meditation on the Kennedy assassination come versions of songs composed between 1966 and 1981, all refocused by loose arrangements for the five accompanying musicians whom Dylan, no longer playing guitar, now leads from an upright piano.

Since that piano faces the audience, not much of Dylan can be seen, at least from the stalls. Against a plain backdrop, bathed in nicotine-stained light, he and the band begin with half a minute of a kind of free-jazz version of Steven Foster’s Oh! Susanna before finding their way into Watching the River Flow, the first of the older songs, now radically reshaped.

The current approach, evolved over the past decade, blends his love of Chicago blues, rockabilly, Western swing, and the Quintet du Hot Club de France. It gives Dylan a sound as identifiable as the one he found when he went electric in the mid-60s, but with a great deal more flexibility. The skills of his musicians – Bob Britt and Doug Lancio on guitars, Tony Garnier on string bass and bass guitar, Charley Drayton on drums and Donnie Herron on steel guitar, fiddle and electric mandolin – make many things possible, principally a constant sense of dramatic ebb and flow.

Now Dylan can change gear in mid-song, suddenly introducing I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, originally a country song, to the Latin-flavoured riff from Roy Head’s Treat Her Right, or he can sing the ominous Black Rider almost entirely out of tempo. The interplay between Britt and Lancio is a highlight on several songs.

There is still room in Dylan’s shows for the surprising, the approximate and the provisional. Key West (Philosopher Pirate), a highlight of the recent album, is treated to a brand new set of chords, completely changing its mood, while there is a moment when the finger-snapping version of Johnny Mercer’s That Old Black Magic appeared to be falling apart, only to be gathered up.

Dylan pops out from behind the piano a couple of times to stand beside the instrument, acknowledging the audience’s applause and seeming in good spirits. “Thank you, art lovers!” he says as the applause for When I Paint My Masterpiece, another of the older songs, dies away.

His singing is, as ever, a study in itself, now closer to gruff, staccato speech. His inventive phrasing is at its most eloquent in the lovely I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You and its most audacious in Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine), when he delays the final words of the title line so teasingly that they seem in danger of taking up residence in the next song.

So there is no Blowin’ in the Wind, no Like a Rolling Stone, not even All Along the Watchtower, the most frequently played song of his entire concert career. No Hard Rain or Masters of War, which would have suited the times. Probably he wants nothing, particularly nostalgia, to overshadow the new songs. But at the very end there is Every Grain of Sand, an exquisite benediction, 40 years old, here reshaped into a lilting waltz. After delivering the final verse, he puts a harmonica to his lips for the first and only time. And there it is. That sound, lifted by the audience’s roar of delight, going straight to the heart once again.

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After 74 stellar performances in the US, the run of newly announced shows will form part of his first UK tour in over five years, with further European dates confirmed in Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland.

The tour is in support of his latest album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’, which released back in 2020. The full-length has received widespread critical acclaim and is the singer-songwriter’s first original album in eight years.

The record also saw Bob Dylan become the first artist with a US Top 40 album in every decade since the 1960s.

All shows are billed as “non-phone events” for an intimate experience with no distraction. Audience members will be required to place their mobile devices into a Yondr phone pouch, which they will be able to keep with them for the duration of the performance.

Don’t miss the chance to see the legendary American musician perform live at UK venues later this year!

Bob Dylan ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ Full Album Tracklisting:

I Contain Multitudes False Prophet My Own Version of You I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You Black Rider Goodbye Jimmy Reed Mother of Muses Crossing the Rubicon Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

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Bob Dylan adds dates to first UK tour in more than five years

The shows on tour are "non-phone events", with the audience required to lock their phones in a bag during the performance.

Thursday 1 September 2022 23:20, UK

Bob Dylan has added three new shows to his sell-out UK tour due to "popular demand".

The shows in Manchester, Oxford and Bournemouth will end the US folk and rock singer's tour this year.

Dylan, 81, will now play 12 dates in October and November 2022 as part of his Rough and Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour, which began in December in Milwaukee.

All the shows are "non-phone events", with the audience required to lock their phones in pouches made by Yondr, a maker of bags that lock up phones during concerts, for the duration of the performance.

Dylan announced his first UK tour in more than five years in July.

He will now also perform at Manchester Apollo, Oxford New Theatre and Bournemouth BIC.

The concerts will take place between Wednesday 19 October and Saturday 5 November, with tickets for the new shows going on sale on Monday.

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Dylan will play four nights at the London Palladium before visiting Cardiff, Hull and Nottingham for arena shows, as well as two nights in Glasgow.

The musician, who has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize for literature during his career, last toured the UK in 2017 as part of his Never Ending Tour.

On that tour he mixed classic tracks such as Blowin' In The Wind and Tangled Up In Blue with newer material.

Dylan has already played 74 US dates as part of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, in support of his UK number one 39th studio album.

The shows have drawn upon his vast back catalogue as well as songs from the critically acclaimed new album.

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Emerging from New York City's Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, Dylan became a counter-cultural figure with the release of a series of political anthems.

Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, was the first songwriter to receive the Nobel prize for literature in 2016.

His songs have been recorded more than 6,000 times, with artists as varied as Jimi Hendrix and Adele finding both commercial and critical success with covers.

Dylan has to date sold more than 125 million records globally.

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Bob Dylan Adds 2022 Tour Dates

By Allison Hussey

Bob Dylan has announced a new string of tour dates, the latest leg in an expansive run that Dylan has said will extend through 2024. He’ll start in Phoenix, Arizona on March 3 and will end in mid-April in Oklahoma City. See the full schedule below.

Dylan’s return to the road, which began with a stint through parts of the United States last fall , follows 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways . The Bob Dylan Center , a museum and archive of his work, is set to open in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 10.

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A funny thing happened at Bob Dylan ‘s concert at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach: It got dark… really dark. But only on stage; out in the auditorium, the house lights stayed up, dimmed just a little, for the whole show. That was a first, for most of us, even with thousands of concerts under our belts. Was it an accommodation for latecomers, as seemed likely at first? (Nowadays, Dylan goes on right at 8:05, and if you’re running over from the merch line, you won’t be seated till the next set break.) No, they never did go down, and when some audience members who considered this a vibe-kill asked ushers what was up, they were told it was at the request of the artist.

Reports indicated the same thing had happened at the prior tour stop in San Diego. Did this have something to do with making sure no one was covertly filming the show, right after some footage had leaked out from a previous date, despite attendees being required to lock phones up in Yondr pouches at every date? Or did Dylan just decide that some of the recent material that dominates the show is so thematically dark that timid crowds could benefit from, you know, a night light? Not for the first time in a 60-year career, some decisions may remain impenetrable.

The irony — and you’d have to think it was an intentional one — was that the stage itself was dimmer than any other spot in the 3,000-seat Terrace. The way this “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour (which started on the east coast last fall) has been set up, Dylan starts the show completely in the shadows, playing electric guitar alongside his band for the only time all night, before he steps over and stands upright at a barely illuminated piano, where he’ll spend the remainder of the night. At center stage, guitarists Bob Britt and Doug Lancio get the most lighting, while Dylan gets about the same voltage as drummer Charley Drayton, bassist Tony Garnier and pedal steel player Donnie Herron, also off to the side. Every few song breaks, Dylan will step into what passes for a spotlight in the middle of the stage, striking a pose as he takes in the applause, daring you to decide whether he looks more like a lover or a fighter. And then it’s back to his position at the practically candlelit keys.

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Eventually, maybe, with the house lights up, there may be some kind of metaphor to embrace here: Bob Dylan can see us better than we can see him.

Heavy, right? Go ahead, take a moment to soak the profundity in.

Even if the wattage varies when Dylan comes to your town, the music itself could be described as impressionistic, with band arrangements that rarely draw attention to any one player at a time, and all of them improvising to the extent that 12-bar blues allow it, except for maybe standup bassist Garnier (the longest-standing member of Dylan’s touring unit, having put in 30-plus years), who more than anyone is the anchor of the whole thing. Of course the improviser-in-chief is Dylan, whose piano parts can can straddle the fine line between being a little oddball and deeply lovely, and who is not likely to sing the same line the same way twice in back to back shows, but who seems to reinvent his own language on a nightly basis out of craving exploration, not curing boredom, treating his voice like the fine jazz instrument it is.

Dylan is emphasizing a new album on tour for maybe the first time since his gospel era of 1979-80 (when, of course, for a period he played only new material, having fleetingly forsaken the secular). “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” released two years ago, makes up slightly more than 50% of the set, accounting for nine out of 17 selections. And by and large those picks haven’t changed from night to night, which is another difference from almost all previous Dylan touring, when the idea of a setlist set in stone would have seemed like anathema to the Deadhead-like fans following him from show to show. Anecdotal evidence picked up by talking to folks at the Terrace indicates that he still has a bunch of those nightly followers — and that, surprisingly, they don’t even seem let down that the rundown of songs is unvarying each night. They were overjoyed in the last couple of weeks when, for a few shows starting in San Francisco, Dylan replaced this tour’s usual show-closer, “Every Grain of Sand,” with a less heavenly cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil.” But by Long Beach, “Grain” had been restored, and the show was locked in again. No matter. If these repeat customers are guaranteed not to get a wild-card song selection most nights, they have the sense that every moment feels like a wild card.

“Rough and Rowdy Ways” itself is a deeply impressionistic — read: mysterious — album despite being jam-packed with more specific lyrical details than have ever been crammed into a single Dylan record in his career, it’s still a puzzle to figure out how (or if) they all fit together. So if you want to go beyond just enjoying the mere melodic playfulness of Dylan’s line readings, you can entertain yourself during the show by wondering if the different spin he puts on thing imparts any additional clues about where he’s coming from, given that the songs can even seem self-contradictory. When he’s performing something like “Crossing the Rubicon” live, does he mean to present himself as the seeker who sings something as gentle as “I feel the Holy Spirit inside / See the light that freedom gives”? Or the violent miscreant who moments earlier was threatening to “cut you up with a crooked knife”? (In Dylan’s multiverse, maybe even the Holy Spirit has a penchant for murder most foul.)

Of the eight oldies that fill out the current setlist, only “Gotta Serve Somebody” is a man-on-the-street-famous “hit,” although picks like “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” and “When I Paint My Masterpiece” are enough to send the patron with even a passing knowledge of catalog favorites home happy. It has been supposed by some writers covering earlier gigs on the tour that he has avoided galvanizing barn-burners like “Highway 61” because he doesn’t want them to overshadow the new material. If that’s true — and it probably is — it’s not necessarily paramount to dialing the energy on the oldies down so as to falsely elevate the mostly mellow newbies. It’s more that there’s a brilliant quality to the way this set has been designed for the songs to loosely be of a piece, a throughline that would be spoiled if “Subterranean Homesick Blues” suddenly popped in.

There, I said it: “Like a Rolling Stone” would have been an absolute buzz-kill in this show. Thank you, Bob, for denying it to us.

It’s almost comical to compare what Dylan is doing at 81 with what Paul McCartney has been doing in stadium shows just on the cusp of 80. One’s a people-pleaser, and the other is a walking Rorschach test, or hall of mirrors. But they’re putting on what may be the two most reliably great shows of 2022, despite flying or bussing in from opposite ends of the solar system. You don’t want McCartney to act his age, but to defy it. On the other hand, it’s fantastic that Dylan is putting on what absolutely amounts to a rock ‘n’ roll show where nonetheless you can believe how old he is, because the depth of his performance is heightened by our awareness of the years he’s logged, which add to the palpable mythos that’s already there in the music. The barely death-defying danger of “Crossing the Rubicon,” or the fountain-of-youth giddiness of “Coming Up” — listen, it’s OK to want both from our favorite octogenarians.

You’re wondering how well he’s singing these days? Well, about as wonderfully as he has in the 21st century, as long as you’re not expecting to hear his “Lay Lady Lay” or even “Slow Train” voice. It’s the voice of ravaged experience — but he sounds pretty , at times, too. (Credit, if you will, the three albums he devoted to covering Frank Sinatra-era standards, one of which, “Melancholy Mood,” shows up late in this setlist.) His voice spins on a time from gentle coddling to the suggestion of fury — and good humor, too. This is a tour where he may actually catch him laughing, as he did in Long Beach at the end of “Masterpiece,” as if he or the band had just told a good joke. There’s enough clarity in his singing these days that the Long Beach audience was there with audible responses to certain lines, like applause during “I Contain Multitudes” for the mention of “them British bad boys, the Rolling Stones.” (Even “The size of your cock will get you nowhere,” from the otherwise doom-laden “Black Rider,” got a murmuring chuckle.)

The most recent material was mostly rendered somewhat faithfully to the “Rough and Rowdy” album versions — with the exception of “Key West,” which from all accounts has gotten a few different arrangements on the tour, and which was getting yet another completely different one Monday, faithful fans reported. Of the old stuff… yeah, it’s not going to sound like the record, but you knew that. In true “Never Ending Tour” fashion, “Gotta Serve Somebody” didn’t get a big round of applause till the chorus kicked in, so unfamiliar did it sound, with the first verse rendered practically a cappella as the two guitarists added a few stingers for good set-up measure. (Lyric changes were to be had there, not all of them easy to make out.) “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” had what amounted to a new — and satisfying! — melody and rhythm, even before its fast pace slowed to a crawl for a half-time finale. “Every Grain of Sand” didn’t depart greatly from its waltz tempo in closing the show, but Dylan added a new piano riff as counterpoint midway through.

The big takeaway from this show, and likely every one on the tour: At 81, Dylan is acting his somber age, and yet, in his fashion, deep at play in the fields of the Lord. As far as these gigs are concerned, even with the near-blackout on stage allowing Dylan to let the mystery be, it’s not dark yet. It’s not even getting there.

Bob Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour” setlist:

1. Watching The River Flow 2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine) 3. I Contain Multitudes 4. False Prophet 5. When I Paint My Masterpiece 6. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 7. Black Rider 8. My Own Version of You 9. Crossing The Rubicon 10. To Be Alone With You 11. Key West (Philosopher Pirate) 12. Gotta Serve Somebody 13. I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You 14. Melancholy Mood 15. Mother of Muses 16. Goodbye Jimmy Reed 17. Every Grain of Sand

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At 81, Bob Dylan is Still Full of Surprises: Live Review

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Even in this new era of Dylan concerts, where the setlist rarely varies from night to night, after many years when consecutive shows would yield several different songs (perhaps his loved ones intervened to insist on a standardized setlist, to make it easier on his octogenarian ass—the aging rocker’s equivalent of taking away dad’s car keys), there remains a sense of chaos, of anarchy, bubbling under the surface of Dylan’s performance. At times, despite being in full control of his accompaniment and arrangements, he still presents like an ornery mule trying to buck the band off his back.

Yet, rarely, in certain songs, he would seemingly choose to be well-behaved, reining in his knack for hitting off-notes on the keys, and making an extra effort to intone lyrics cogently. Still, that incipient chaos (or was it the threat of an imminent train wreck?) loomed, as his overwhelming aura of don’t-give-a-fuckness permeated the air above the stage.

Listen to “Every Grain of Sand” from another date on the tour

Yes: the keys. If you weren’t aware, one of the world’s most iconic figures-with-a-guitar has, for over a decade now, chosen to almost never brandish one onstage. Other than a few forays center-stage, where he wields a mic stand like a fighting stick, he’s mostly stayed behind the piano. Which is why the first surprise out of the gate in the opening “Watching the River Flow” was the silhouette of Dylan, all the way upstage—and, indeed, facing upstage, his back to the crowd—with axe strapped on, briefly mixing his own lines with those of the two other guitarists in the band, before sitting down at the piano to sing. It was the first time he’d done so since 2019.

Listen: Here’s a recording of Dylan playing guitar at the Portland show. (Ed. note: The sound quality is a bit dicey. We’re including it for historical reference.)

As for the piano, he approaches it with a seeming nod to the oblique style of (if nowhere near the actual ability of) Thelonious Monk. It’s far from the honky-tonk/boogie-woogie-derived style that once characterized his work on the instrument. When that type of outside-the-box playing is the defining element in a rock ’n’ roll band, it makes for a very odd overall sound. And this band really does sound like no other. They seem almost to hover around Dylan’s central presence, more a hive than a band.

Listen: Dylan performed the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil” at another stop on his current tour

Dylan seldom names his tours, but is so obviously enamored of his latest album that he’s insisted on labeling this jaunt the “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour,” and dominating the setlist with all but one of its songs. Dylan, who these days is singing more clearly than at any time since perhaps his early folkie days, elicits laughs and cheers from audiences for specific witty turns of phrase in the new album’s songs. The idea of an audience being able to hear unfamiliar lyrics clearly enough as to elicit laughter, or any sort of reaction, is nothing short of miraculous, given the indifferent mumbling that too often defined Dylan’s vocal delivery in concert less than a decade ago.

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It’s not just the clearer diction, though, but his recent lyrics themselves that seem to come across so well to listeners. He’s packed his verses with common turns of phrase, and stray lines from older songs, a practice that some might experience as clichés or marks of lazy writing. But watching him sing them, it becomes clear that he’s doing so as a conscious effort to “speak the people’s language,” rather than the language of a poet. He must love that feeling of connection with an audience, as they pick up what he’s putting down, which is why he’s so devoted to delivering these new songs onstage.

Highlights? “Gotta Serve Somebody,” which—despite beginning with guitarist Bob Britt switching to a Flying V and bassist Tony Garnier (also the musical director, who’s been backing Dylan now for an astonishing 33 years!) swapping the stand-up for an electric, indicating that some serious rocking might commence—started with several slow-burn verses delivered by Dylan almost unaccompanied, before the band ultimately kicked in and made good on that choice of instrumentation. “To Be Alone with You,” one of the numbers where Dylan was on his best behavior, given a nicely syncopated arrangement more delicate than the original. “Every Grain of Sand,” played in an appropriately reverent manner, and delivered by the composer as if reflecting on the lyrics from a distant height. “Melancholy Mood,” a perfectly pitched, if too-brief, Sinatra cover.

Watch Dylan perform “To Be Alone With You” at a 2021 concert

Among the new songs, “Black Rider” stood out, sung diffidently by Dylan from upstage center. (Even when he did emerge from behind the piano, he always remained all the way upstage, never approaching the audience, and doubtless frustrating those who’d paid good money to sit close, only to have their view of him blocked by the piano all night.) And “Mother of Muses,” which capably followed the Sinatra tune in an alliterative pairing.

The show didn’t necessarily inspire an emotional experience in this reviewer, but a delightful and fascinating one nonetheless. One can no longer really expect to commune with Dylan as a fellow human being, but rather to observe him as an increasingly distant, orbiting alien. We’re lucky to have had him in our solar system all these years. If this tour happens to be the last time we ever see him in the flesh, may he have a good trip home.

Listen to the entire concert from the Albuquerque stop on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour

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Although I read the entire article, appreciated some viewpoints, my hair stood up on my arms at other times. I did like the arthritis joke, since my hands hurt at 70 years.

I couldn’t help but wonder if writer was a Dylan fan? An “earworm” bubbled up from the past in a Jerry Jeff Walker song. “…like some writer talkin’ to the wall…”

Saw Dylan again to see/hear his Masterpiece, “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour in Eugene. We LOVE Bob Dylan his lyrics, style, element of surprise and HUS way.

Saw Dylan in Orlando last night, our 1st Dylan concert…. Disappointing to say the least! It was our first Dylan concert…. went with my wife and some friends. We wanted to see him in honor of my wife’s brother who pasted a few years ago (he loved Dylan) and couldn’t wait to hear the songs he loved in his memory. 20 minutes in….40 minutes in…..an hour….90 minutes, Dylan hadn’t performed “any” of his hits from the past? NOT EVEN ONE!!!???? How does a supposed Rock icon/ Hall of Famer leave out what got him there? I’ve never been to a Concert where the performer doesn’t play “any” of their hit songs, never, and I’ve been to several hundred concerts. Unfortunately and sadly, this was the most disappointing music performance we’ve ever witnessed. We spent hundreds $$ to get upfront seats, hoping to relive the memories of my brother in-law…. oh well. We’re not upset just truly disappointed. At the very end he played his harmonica, which I was surprised we hadn’t heard….. and 40 seconds later it was over….. even other people around me were like….wow… Sorry for the rant but want other people to know what to expect… Have a great day everyone!

It’s pretty well known that Dylan rarely performs his hits. If you’d Googled his recent setlists you would have seen that he mostly concentrates on recent material and only throws in about a half dozen old songs. His shows have been like this for many years now. Sorry you were disappointed in any case.

Yowie. I’m going on Thursday. Didn’t know about him not playing his hits. I’m already disappointed.

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Bob Dylan Expands Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour With West Coast Dates

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Bob Dylan recently wrapped up a stretch of North American tour dates that centered heavily on southern states like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Now, he’s heading to the west coast for another set of shows on the extensive Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour expected to last through 2024, with more dates to be announced along the way.

The tour picks back up on May 28 with a show at Spokane, Washington’s First Interstate Center for the Arts. The 14-date set spreads across multiple cities in Washington, Oregon, and California. It is scheduled to run through June 18, concluding at the San Diego Civic Theatre, with ticket sales beginning on April 22.

The tour has been fairly consistent since its 2021 start, with Dylan only switching up the setlist at his first show of 2022 to debut the Rough and Rowdy Ways tune “Crossing the Rubicon” in place of “Early Roman Kings.”

The setlist is littered with other cuts from the record, released in 2020, in addition to selections from his back catalog like “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” “To Be Alone With You,” “Watching the River Flow,” and “Every Grain of Sand.”

The tour also saw the debut of drummer Charlie Drayton and guitarist Doug Lancio, who were joined by bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Bob Britt, and multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron.

Dylan hasn’t released an album of new material since 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways , but last year he dropped The Bootleg Series Vol. 16: Springtime in New York 1980–1985 . It focused on studio outtakes from his Eighties albums Shot of Love , Infidels , and Empire Burlesque. “The overwhelming amount of material — 54 unreleased songs total — proves that even at Dylan’s lowest point, he was still capable of writing great music, even if the best songs often didn’t wind up on his albums,” read a review in Rolling Stone . “This wasn’t a failure of creativity. It was a failure of curation.”

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Time Out of Mind , and a source close to the Dylan camp recently told Rolling Stone they’d likely mark the occasion with a Bootleg Series devoted to the album. Once that comes out, most eras of his career will have been chronicled in a Bootleg Series box with the very large exception of the Never-Ending Tour, or whatever we’re supposed to call the continuous tour he’s been on since 1988. “First of all, the Never-Ending Tour, as Bob said, isn’t the name of it,” the source told Rolling Stone last year. “Secondly, Bob continues to tour. Maybe we’ll understand it toward the end of it. We’ll look at it that way.”

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