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Bob Dylan Details ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ Spring 2024 Tour Dates [Update]

[UPDATE]:   Bob Dylan has continued to tack on additional dates to his originally outlined spring 2024 Rough and Rowady Ways Tour itinerary. The run will now extend into April with new shows throughout the South and Southeast.

Since announcing the initial dates in late January, the legendary singer-songwriter has added new concerts in Asheville, NC (3/21), Louisville, KY (3/23–3/24), Memphis, TN (3/29–3/30), New Orleans (4/1),  Lafayette, LA (4/2), Dallas (4/4), and Austin (4/5–4/6). Tickets for the Louisiana and Texas shows will go on sale on Friday, February 9th via Dylan’s website . Tickets to all other shows are now on sale.

These additions come after Dylan’s original tour announcement was presented with the message, “Some dates were previously published in error. We apologize and will post updates as shows are confirmed.” It is unclear how many more shows he plans to add, but this week’s newly announced concerts mark the second round of additions to the original schedule. The  Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour began in 2021 and is advertised to end this year. See below for the most up-to-date list of concerts.

Bob Dylan 2024 Tour Dates

March 1, 2024 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 2, 2024 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 5, 2024 – Clearwater, Florida – Ruth Eckerd Hall March 6, 2024 – Clearwater, Florida – Ruth Eckerd Hall March 7, 2024 – Fort Myers, Florida – Suncoast Credit Union Arena March 9, 2024 – Orlando, Florida – Walt Disney Theater March 10, 2024 – Orlando, Florida – Walt Disney Theater March 12, 2024 – Jacksonville, Florida – Moran Theater at Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts March 14, 2024 – Athens, Georgia – The Classic Center March 15, 2024 – Athens, Georgia – The Classic Center March 17, 2024 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Belk Theater March 18, 2024 – Fayetteville, North Carolina – Crown Theatre March 21, 2024 – Asheville, North Carolina – Harrah’s Cherokee Center March 23, 2024 – Louisville, Kentucky – Louisville Palace March 24, 2024 – Louisville, Kentucky – Louisville Palace March 29, 2024 – Memphis, Tennessee – Orpheum Theatre March 30, 2024 – Memphis, Tennessee – Orpheum Theatre April 1, 2024 – New Orleans, Louisiana – Saenger Theatre April 2, 2024 – Lafayette, Louisiana – Heymann Performing Arts Center April 4, 2024 – Dallas, Texas – Music Hall at Fair Park April 5, 2024 – Austin, Texas – ACL Live at the Moody Theater April 6, 2024 – Austin, Texas – ACL Live at the Moody Theater

[1/23/24]: Bob Dylan will take his  Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour into the new year with a fresh batch of spring 2024 U.S. tour dates. The trek behind Dylan’s 2020 album of the same name began in 2021 and has been advertised as lasting through 2024.

The new stretch of concerts will kick off with two nights in Fort Lauderdale, FL on March 1st and 2nd. The Nobel Prize -winning singer-songwriter will go on play a smattering of two-night stands throughout the Southeast including stops in Clearwater, FL (3/5–3/6), Orlando (3/9–3/10), and Athens, GA (3/14–3/15) before wrapping in Fayetteville, NC (3/18).

Some outlets have reported additional shows throughout the Southeast extending into April, but they are not found on Dylan’s website . As of publication time for this article, the website features a note reading, “Some dates were previously published in error. We apologize and will post updates as shows are confirmed.”

Dylan returned to U.S. stages last fall after a lengthy run of international dates. While abroad in Japan, Dylan added several covers by the  Grateful Dead and  Bob Weir to his repertoire including “Truckin'”, “Brokedown Palace”, “Stella Blue”, and “Only A River”. Upon returning to the U.S., Zimmy brought the covers—likely more recognizable to domestic audiences—with him for a run of shows through the Midwest . Prior to the fall tour, Dylan made a surprise appearance with  Tom Petty ‘s (and his own) former backing band The Heartbreakers at  Farm Aid .

Tickets for all newly announced Bob Dylan 2024 Rough and Rowdy Ways tour dates will go on sale on Friday, January 26th. Visit Dylan’s website for on-sale information by show. Click below for a list of confirmed dates.

Bob Dylan, Spring 2024 Tour Dates

March 1 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 2 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts March 5 – Clearwater, Florida @ Ruth Eckerd Hall March 6 – Clearwater, Florida @ Ruth Eckerd Hall March 7 – Fort Myers, Florida @ Suncoast Credit Union Arena March 9 – Orlando, Florida @ Walt Disney Theater March 10 – Orlando, Florida @ Walt Disney Theater March 12 – Jacksonville, Florida @ Moran Theater at Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts March 14 – Athens, Georgia @ The Classic Center March 15 – Athens, Georgia @ The Classic Center March 17 – Charlotte, North Carolina @ Belk Theater March 18 – Fayetteville, North Carolina @ Crown Theatre

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Bob Dylan Extends North American Tour, Announces New 2024 Dates

by Tina Benitez-Eves September 11, 2023, 3:20 pm

Back in 2021, Bob Dylan kicked off his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour , in support of his 2020 album of the same name, and has already covered North America, the U.K., Europe, and Japan. Circling back to North America in the spring of 2024, Dylan’s new run of shows will start off in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 1 and run through March 18 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Recent Dylan concerts have included a number of covers, including renditions of  Merle Haggard ’s “Bad Actor,” Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,”  Grateful Dead ‘s “West L.A. Fadeaway,” “Truckin,” “Brokedown Palace,” and “Stella Blue,” Bob Weir’s 2016 song “Only a River,” and more.

When released, Rough and Rowdy Ways  peaked at No. 2 on the  Billboard  200. In 2023, Dylan also released  Shadow Kingdom to accompany Alma Har’el’s film  Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan , followed by  Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 .

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Dylan released The Complete Budokan 1978 on November 17, a live album featuring every song from his February 28 and March 1 sets in 1978, to great acclaim.

At 82, Dylan seems intent on touring indefinitely. Prior to the pandemic in 2020, Dylan had been on the road for nearly two years and only missed one year of touring since the Never Ending Tour in 1988.

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“The reason you do it is because it’s a perfect way to stay anonymous, and still be a member of the social order,” said Dylan when discussing his fate in 2022. “You’re the master of your fate. You manipulate reality and move through time and space with the proper attitude.”

Dylan added, “It’s not an easy path to take, not fun and games, it’s no Disney World. It’s an open space, with concrete pillars and an iron floor, with obligations and sacrifices. It’s a path, and destiny put some of us on that path, in that position. It’s not for everybody.”

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Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour 2024 :

• 1 March 2024 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts  
• 2 March 2024 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida @  Broward Center for the Performing Arts    
• 5 March 2024 – Clearwater, Florida @ Ruth Eckerd Hall    
• 6 March 2024 – Clearwater, Florida @ Ruth Eckerd Hall    
• 7 March 2024 – Fort Myers, Florida @ Suncoast Credit Union Arena    
• 9 March 2024 – Orlando, Florida @ Walt Disney Theater    
• 10 March 2024 – Orlando, Florida @ Walt Disney Theater    
• 12 March 2024 – Jacksonville, Florida @ Moran Theater at Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts    
• 14 March 2024 – Athens, Georgia @ The Classic Center    
• 15 March 2024 – Athens, Georgia @ The Classic Center    
• 17 March 2024 – Charlotte, North Carolina @ Belk Theater    
• 18 March 2024 – Fayetteville, North Carolina @ Crown Theatre    

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Bob Dylan Announces October 2023 Tour Dates

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Bob Dylan has announced the next leg of his tour in support of Rough and Rowdy Ways . The newly announced concerts will take place across North America in October. See Dylan’s upcoming tour dates below.

Dylan began his tour in November 2021. Along the way, he’s performed in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe , and Japan. He is planning to stay on the road into 2024.

Since first announcing the tour, Dylan has released Shadow Kingdom and Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 .

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10-01 Kansas City, MO - The Midland Theatre 10-02 Kansas City, MO - The Midland Theatre 10-04 St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre 10-06 Chicago, IL - Cadillac Palace Theatre 10-07 Chicago, IL - Cadillac Palace Theatre 10-08 Chicago, IL - Cadillac Palace Theatre 10-11 Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater 10-12 Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater 10-16 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre 10-20 Cincinnati, OH - The Andrew J. Brady Music Center 10-21 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre 10-23 Erie, PA - Warner Theatre 10-24 Rochester, NY - Auditorium Theatre 10-26 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall 10-27 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall 10-29 Montreal, Quebec - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier 10-30 Schenectady, NY - Proctors Theatre

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Bob Dylan will finally resume his Never Ending Tour this fall, following his longest break from the road since 1981 to 1984.

Billed the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour, the trek kicks off at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre on November 2nd — Dylan’s first public performance since 2019. He’ll travel through the Midwest, hitting Chicago, Cleveland, and Bloomington, Illinois, before heading to the East Coast. He’ll hit his usual New York City spot — the Beacon Theatre — for three nights in late November.

Although the leg wraps in Washington, D.C., on December 2nd, Dylan’s website bills it as a worldwide tour lasting through 2024, with more dates likely to be announced.

The new shows will feature the live debut of Dylan’s most recent album Rough and Rowdy Ways ; although he streamed the Shadow Kingdom concert special last summer, he mainly performed songs from the Sixties and Seventies. Earlier this month, he released the massive Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) , spotlighting the early Eighties.

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11/2 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre 11/3 – Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre 11/5 – Cleveland, OH @ Key Bank State Theatre 11/6 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre 11/7 – Bloomington, IN @ IU Auditorium 11/9 – Cincinnati, OH @ Procter & Gamble Hall 11/10 – Knoxville, TN @ Knoxville Auditorium 11/12 – Louisville, KY @ Palace Theatre 11/13 – Charleston, WV @ Municipal Auditorium 11/15 Moon Township, PA @ Robert Morris Univ. – UPMC Events Center 11/16 – Hershey, PA @ Hershey Theatre 11/19 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 11/20 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 11/21 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 11/23 – Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre 11/24 – Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre 1/26 – Providence, RI @ Providence Performing Arts Center 11/27 – Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre 11/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 11/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met 12/2 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem

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Bob Dylan has announced a run of North American live dates for 2023 – find all the details below.

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The legendary singer-songwriter is due to continue his ongoing ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ world tour in the US and Canada this autumn.

Kicking off with two shows in Kansas City (October 1, 2), the upcoming leg also includes stop-offs in Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Toronto and Montreal, among other cities.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time this Friday (August 25) – you’ll be able to buy yours here . Pre-sales are set to go live at the same time on Thursday (24), details of which can be found via the same link.

According to an official announcement on social media, “more dates will be posted soon”. See that post below, along with the full list of new gigs.

Bob Dylan and His Band present the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour this fall in North America! See https://t.co/IlnO4bIndr  for October dates, which go on sale this Friday, August 25. More dates will be posted soon. Don’t you dare miss it! pic.twitter.com/cCZOtoUxh4 — Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) August 21, 2023

OCTOBER 2023 01 – The Midland Theatre, Kansas City, MO   02 – The Midland Theatre, Kansas City, MO  04 – Stifel Theatre, St. Louis, MO 06 – Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL  07 – Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL  08 – Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL  11 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI  12 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, WI  16 – Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN  20 – The Andrew J. Brady Music Center, Cincinnati, OH  21 – Akron Civic Theatre, Akron, OH  23 – Warner Theatre, Erie, PA  24 – Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY  26 – Massey Hall, Toronto, ON  27 – Massey Hall, Toronto, ON  29 – lace des Arts – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal, QC  30 – Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, NY 

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Last year saw Dylan embark on his first UK tour in five years , which included a four-night billing at the London Palladium. He has since taken the ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ concert to Ireland, Europe and Japan.

Earlier this summer, Dylan released a new album titled ‘Shadow Kingdom’ . The collection featured the recordings that appeared in his Alm Har’el-directed 2021 concert film of the same name .

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Bob Dylan Announces New North American Tour Dates [Updated]

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Bob Dylan has added a new run of North American shows to his long-running “Never Ending Tour.”

Taking place in October 2023, Dylan’s upcoming leg includes dates in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto, Montreal, and beyond. Additional shows will be announced soon.

Update – September 11th: Dylan has announced new shows in November, including shows in Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Newark, and more.

Tickets are available via StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Earlier this year, Dylan released a live album of his 2021 performance, Shadow Kingdom .

Next, he’ll be the subject of a new Dylan biopic from director James Mangold called A Complete Unknown .

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Bob Dylan 2023 Tour Dates:

10/01 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre 10/02 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre 10/04 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre 10/06 – Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre 10/07 – Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre 10/08 – Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre 10/11 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater 10/12 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater 10/16 – Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre 10/20 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J. Brady Music Center 10/21 – Akron, OH @ Akron Civic Theatre 10/23 – Erie, PA @ Warner Theatre 10/24 – Rochester, NY @ Auditorium Theatre 10/26 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall 10/27 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall 10/29 – Montreal, QC @ lace des Arts – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier 10/30 – Schenectady, NY @ Proctors Theatre 11/01 – Springfield, MA @ Symphony Hall 11/03 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre 11/04 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre 11/05 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre 11/07 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre 11/08 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre 11/10 – Providence, RI @ Providence Performing Arts Center 11/11 – Waterbury, CT @ Palace Theater 11/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 11/15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 11/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore 11/20 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Hall 11/21 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Hall

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Bob Dylan Announces New North American Tour Dates

Bob Dylan has announced new North American tour dates.

According to his website, this new leg of Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways tour will begin on Oct. 1 in Kansas City, Missouri, with dates scheduled through the end of the month, including two Canadian cities, Toronto and Montreal. Tickets will be available beginning Aug. 25.

So far, 17 shows are listed, though a tweet from Dylan's page noted that more dates will be posted soon.

You can view a complete list of shows below.

Dylan has been traveling the world on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour since 2021, focusing primarily on songs from his 2020 album of the same name. He's been throwing in a surprising amount of cover songs  during the run. The tour is advertised as lasting until 2024.

Bob Dylan, Rough and Rowdy Ways Worldwide Tour, Fall 2023 Oct. 1 - Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre Oct. 2 - Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre Oct. 4 - St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre Oct. 6 - Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre Oct. 7 - Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre Oct. 8 - Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Palace Theatre Oct. 11 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater Oct. 12 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater Oct. 16 - Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre Oct. 20 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J. Brady Music Center Oct. 21 - Akron, OH @ Akron Civic Theatre Oct. 23 - Erie, PA @ Warner Theatre Oct. 24 - Rochester, NY @ Auditorium Theatre Oct. 26 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall Oct. 27 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall Oct. 29 - Montreal, QB @ Place des Arts - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier Oct. 30 - Schenectady, NY @ Proctors Theatre

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Bob Dylan is heading back on the road.

The folk legend has just announced some West Coast tour dates for this summer as part of his World Wide Tour , in support of his 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways , which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200, becoming his 23rd top 10 on the albums chart . Dylan will begin this leg of his tour on May 28 in Spokane, Washington at the First Interstate Center of the Arts. The singer-songwriter and his band will also be stopping in for two nights at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre and three nights in Los Angeles at Pantages Theatre before wrapping up the trek at the San Diego Civic Theatre in June 18.

The 80-year-old just concluded his first round of shows of 2022 last week, which consisted of 26 shows across the U.S., with stops in Phoenix, San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta and Oklahoma City. The World Wide Tour follows his Never Ending Tour, the popular name given to Dylan’s regular touring schedule that began in 1988 and was forced to end due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tickets for Dylan’s summer shows will be available starting April 22 on his website .

Check out all of the announced tour dates below.

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May 28 – Spokane, Washington @ First Interstate Center for the Arts May 29 – Kennewick, Washington @Toyota Center May 31 – Portland, Oregon @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall June 1 – Seattle, Washington @ Paramount Theatre June 2 – Seattle, Washington @ Paramount Theatre June 5- Eugene, Oregon @ Hult Performing Arts Center June 7 – Redding, California @ Redding Civic Auditorium June 9 – Oakland, California @ Fox Theater June 10 – Oakland, California @ Fox Theater June 11 – Oakland, California @ Fox Theater June 14- Los Angeles, California @ Pantages Theatre June 15- Los Angeles, California @ Pantages Theatre June 16 – Los Angeles, California @ Pantages Theatre June 18 – San Diego, California @ San Diego Civic Theatre

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Bob Dylan Live Review: Latest, and perhaps last, chapter of The Never Ending Tour comes to a masterful close

The penultimate night of the rough and rowdy ways tour caps off one of the strongest stretches of dylan’s live career..

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Bob Dylan has had a long and fruitful relationship with audiences in Austin. Since playing one of his first shows with The Hawks here in September 1965, Dylan has played the Texas capital nearly two dozen times, culminating in a two-night stand here Friday and Saturday that concludes one of the most remarkably consistent stretches in Dylan’s concert history.

Contradicting his decades-long reputation as a mercurial and unpredictable performer, Dylan has delivered almost exactly the same 17-song set since November 2021, when he resumed touring after a nearly two-year pandemic break. 2020’s  Rough And Rowdy Ways  is the fulcrum: For more than 200 shows over the past three years, he’s played nine of the album’s ten songs, leaving off only the epic Murder Most Foul .

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The rest of the show almost always includes the same back-catalogue selections, from openers Watching the River Flow and Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine, to the closing Every Grain of Sand from 1981  Shot Of Love . At this point, die-hard fans know better than to expect his best-known songs: We may never again hear him trot out Like A Rolling Stone or Blowin’ In The Wind or Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. And that’s all right: We don’t expect a greatest-hits revue from the man who wrote “he who isn’t busy being born is busy dying.”

As such, Dylan shows of late are partly a matter of whether he pulls out a surprise in any given city. If he likes your town, you might get an extra song: Earlier this week in Louisiana, he added a couple of Hank Williams nuggets, playing Jambalaya in Lafayette April 2 and On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain in New Orleans April 1.

Tonight in Austin, we’re treated to Across The Borderline, a Ry Cooder/Jim Dickinson/John Hiatt song first recorded by Freddy Fender in 1982. The new addition to the set seemed to energize Dylan: It features arguably his strongest vocal performance of the night, and his mid-song piano solo is gorgeously lyrical.

The performance marked the first time Dylan has played the song this century. It was a staple of his 1986 tour with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; he may well have brought it back this evening  because it’s the title track of a 1993 album by Austin legend Willie Nelson, with whom Dylan will be touring from June to September.

Those summer shows are part of Nelson’s annual Outlaw Tour, which also will feature Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp, Billy Strings and others. The multi-artist bills almost certainly will require abbreviating the 100-minute sets Dylan has been playing since 2021; as such, this weekend’s Austin concerts may well bring an end to this  Rough And Rowdy Ways  phase of his Never Ending Tour.

Dylan’s band has changed slightly since his March 2022 appearance at Austin’s Bass Concert Hall. Longtime bassist Tony Garnier remains the anchor, with pedal steel/fiddle player Don Herron aboard for nearly two decades now. Nashville guitarist Doug Lancio replaced Austin ace Charlie Sexton when Dylan returned from the pandemic, teaming with fellow guitarist Bob Britt (who joined in 2019). Drummer Jerry Pentecost recently took over from Charley Drayton, who played the 2022 Austin show.

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Tonight, the band flexes its muscles on occasion, but just as often they hold back to provide space for Dylan’s singing, which has been defying nature for quite some time. His voice, once a ravaged rasp that paled in comparison to his youthful glory years, somehow improved as Dylan reached senior-citizen status. Near the end of 1979’s Gotta Serve Somebody, his full-throated vamp sounds surprisingly like the ghost of David Bowie.

A late-set choice of Johnny Cash’s Big River, which Dylan first covered in the late 1990s and has played at most of his shows in the past month, finds the band digging into a deep rockabilly groove after Dylan’s jaunty piano kicks things off. A highlight from  Rough And Rowdy Ways  was the nine-minute meditation Key West (Philosopher Pirate), on which Lancio switched from acoustic to electric guitar for a more atmospheric wash of sound behind Dylan’s sprightly melodic piano runs that at times brings to mind, of all things, the theme song from the 1980s TV show Hill Street Blues .

And Dylan’s presentation of his older songs, once altered so drastically that even longtime fans couldn’t name the tune till it was half-over, has been reined in. Well-travelled numbers such as 1967’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight and 1969’s To Be Alone With You still sound different from their recorded counterparts, but it’s less of a guessing-game now. (An exception: 1971’s When I Paint My Masterpiece, which has been reworked to where it uncannily resembles Irving Berlin’s 1920s classic Puttin’ on the Ritz .)

Dylan speaks not a word the entire night, though he acknowledges the crowd’s rapt attention at the end of the show by stepping out front for a few gracious bows. Then the lights go down, the band stroll off, and Bob Dylan’s 21st Austin concert comes to an end. Another full house at the 2,700-capacity theatre will greet him on Saturday night  — and then, what’s next? These past few years have seemed like smooth sailing for Dylan, which probably means it’s time to rock the boat.

Watching The River Flow

Most Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine

I Contain Multitudes

False Prophet

When I Paint My Masterpiece

Black Rider

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

My Own Version Of You

Crossing The Rubicon

To Be Alone With You

Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

Gotta Serve Somebody

Across The Borderline

I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You

Mother Of Muses

Goodbye Jimmy Reed

Every Grain Of Sand

Main picture: Bob Dylan at London's Hyde Park 2019 (credit: Matthew Baker/Getty Images)

Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin

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On March 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Bob Dylan was a few songs into his show – and a few years into his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour – when a woman in the audience seized a medium-quiet moment of tuning to make a request: “Play something we know!” she shouted to the stage.

Dylan squinted. He clearly heard her, as did everyone else in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Within the space of a measure, the tuning took the form of an uptempo introduction – first halting, then darting – and the chords Dylan was plinking out on his baby grand were suddenly recognizable as a melody. It was “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” The band, guided by bassist Tony Garnier, gamely fell in, and the supplicant’s wish had been granted.

Well, sort of. The music was from Irving Berlin’s standard, but the words were still Bob Dylan’s. And the song, 1971’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” was never released on a studio album. Here, it instantly had a brand-new arrangement (and, if you were keeping track, the arrangement it was a new arrangement of was itself many arrangements removed from the original), a gag that actually somehow worked. It would stick in the set for more than a month since, all the way through this weekend’s two shows at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, which triumphantly closed a tour that started in 2021.

In Austin on Friday, this swinging, syncopated rendition of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” was so well-received that Dylan at times had to hold up one finger to keep the general admission crowd, standing on the floor just a few feet away, from clapping too early and often while he delivered lines. Soon enough, he was setting off on another improvised intro, a languorous, jazzy take on John Wesley Harding ’s “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” (1967), which segued into an extended harmonica break before keying back into the groove of its country shuffle origins. It may not have been Bill Evans doing bluegrass, but it showcased Dylan’s evolving piano stylings as well as his band’s uncanny ability to keep up.

Most of them, at least. The mercurial Dylan – all smiles one second, tossing a harmonica in disgust the next, and a notoriously tough boss – was visibly unhappy with one of his guitarists, shooting dirty looks his way and at one point rolling his eyes like a teenager and muttering a “Shit, man” into the mic when he felt parts weren’t played correctly during Friday’s performance.

The next night, that guitarist was replaced on nine songs by none other than Jimmie Vaughan. Talk about sending a message. Vaughan crackled on Nashville Skyline ’s “To Be Alone With You” and brought a born-again zeal to “Gotta Serve Somebody,” which, as the Grammy winner for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male after 1979’s Slow Train Coming , was arguably, and somewhat perversely, Dylan’s greatest hit played at these or any other stops on the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour.

Named for the 2020 album – the last collection of originals Dylan has made, and one of his best – its 202 shows featured a largely static set list and a selection of covers that for some stretches served as tributes to those nights’ respective locations, among them Chuck Berry’s “Nadine” in St. Louis; Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love” in Montreal; and, in Austin, a breathtaking, time-stopping “Across the Borderline” written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, and Jim Dickinson for Willie Nelson. (Dylan on Friday night seemed to tease Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away,” before abandoning the effort; the weekend also gave us Johnny Cash’s “Big River” and Jimmy Rogers’ “Walking by Myself.”)

Most of all, it featured his own brilliant blues and ballads from Rough and Rowdy Ways , which landed, alien-like, smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic … not to offer a cure for what ailed us, but rather to throw on a little mood music for civilization’s final descent.

“My Own Version of You” was Mary Shelley meets the Four Horsemen, Dylan vamping to Garnier and drummer Jerry Pentecost’s interplay; “Black Rider” found him bristling: “Let me go through, open the door,” he demanded, keening in strong voice. “My soul is distressed, my mind is at war. Don't hug me, don't flatter me, don't turn on the charm. I'll take a sword and hack off your arm.” Good to know, thanks!

Dylan, who will be 83 in May, rarely if ever plays guitar or sings front and center these days, choosing to stay behind the piano with pages of lyrics under a light. But often he’ll shoot up from the bench and bang away, experimenting with triplets and flourishes, as on “False Prophet” and its four short fills. “Another day that don't end, another ship goin' out. Another day of anger, bitterness, and doubt,” he delivered with dagger-like phrasing before softening and stretching the moment of clarity: “I know how it happened. I saw it begin. I opened my heart to the world, and the world came in.”

The best of both nights could be found in such passages between violence and vulnerability, as Dylan broke apart these late-career songs he loves and glued them back together, reharmonized and reinterpreted, like Kintsugi live on stage. The most beautiful piece by far was “I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You,” which opened with a glimmering harmonica solo (absent from the album version), then pulsed with Dylan’s held vocal notes, punctuated by Donnie Herron’s spare steel playing.

“Well, my heart’s like a river, a river that sings. Just takes me a while to realize things,” Dylan pleaded to someone who wasn’t even in the room – possibly someone from long ago and far away – with a deep yearning that made it seem like he had waited too long to finally decide. Now, it was only the audience who was swayed. “I’ll see you at sunrise, I’ll see you at dawn. I’ll lay down beside you when everyone’s gone.”

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Listen to Bob Dylan Perform With Jimmie Vaughan at Tour Closer

Bob Dylan brought out a guest guitarist for the final show of his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour : Jimmie Vaughan .

The concert took place on Saturday evening in Austin, Texas. Dylan introduced Vaughan, who replaced Doug Lancio, just before the band broke into “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.” Vaughan stayed on stage for three more songs, “My Own Version of You,” “Crossing the Rubicon” and “To Be Alone With You,” before Lancio returned.

You can hear Vaughan’s segment of the show below.

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Dylan and Vaughan have performed live together before, and Vaughan also appeared as a guest on Dylan’s 1990 album, Under the Red Sky , along with his brother Stevie Ray Vaughan , who died in a helicopter crash the month before the album was released.

“Well, [Dylan] called and asked for Stevie and I to come play together, the way I remember it,” Jimmie Vaughan recalled of those sessions to AL.com in 2013, “so we went out to L.A. and spent an afternoon in the studio with him. And he wouldn’t tell us what song it was, he would just start playing the piano and singing a song, and the bass player and the drummer were there, and we would just sort of jam it out for a minute and then record it like five minutes or something. It was very casual. Very quick. And not too much instruction. ‘What would you do here?’ he said. [ Laughs ].”

Dylan has no further Rough and Rowdy Ways concerts planned. Instead he’ll be on the road again starting in June, joining Willie Nelson ‘s Outlaw Festival tour .

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