Bob Dylan is at it once again, astonishing (and normally perplexing) audiences with his established lists.

On Friday he performed at the initial show of Willie Nelson’s 2024 Outlaw Tunes Competition Tour, a trek that runs appropriate up till September and also consists of Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and distinct other artists.

For the prior 3 years, Dylan has been executing on his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour in help of his 2020 album of the precise recognize. At these exhibits, Dylan played in additional compact theater venues across the entire globe and trapped frequently to tunes from that album, enable save the occasional (typically regionally-certain) address.

New Tour, New Set Lists

But he is thrown most of that to the wind for the Outlaw Tour. On Friday in Alpharetta, Ga, he performed 5 addresses he’d hardly ever performed are living in advance of: Willie Dixon’s “My Babe,” Chuck Berry’s “Minimal Queenie,” the Fleetwoods’ “Mr. Blue,” Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys’ “Chilly, Chilly Coronary heart” and Sanford Clark’s “The Idiot.”

He also played the title observe to his 1990 album Underneath the Red Sky for the initial time due to the fact 2013, as appropriately as several songs from 2012’s Tempest, “Past Here Lies Nothin'” from 2009’s Collectively Via Daily life, a single singular ’70s-period tune, “Basic Twist of Destiny” and his 2000 a single “Issues Have Adjusted” from the film Wonder Boys. Points have transformed, absolutely.

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Dylan stored it up for the 2nd exhibit of the tour in Charlotte, North Carolina, opening with “Highway 61 Revisited,” followed by “Capturing Star” from 1989’s Oh Mercy for the initially time in in excess of a ten years, and then “Enjoy Sick” from 1997’s Time Out of Brain. Two a lot additional covers appeared: the Grateful Dead’s “Stella Blue,” which Dylan has played just before, and Paul Davis’ “Six Times on the Highway,” which he has not. “Ballad of a Slender Gentleman” came second to final in the established, adopted by “I am going to Be Your Infant Tonight” from 1967’s John Wesley Harding.

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He did all of this devoid of the want of explanation from the stage. Then, for the 3rd evening of the tour in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dylan performed the particular related very same established as the subsequent exhibit. No matter irrespective of whether these to begin with handful of established lists had been just a spurt of spontaneity or if you can locate a lot additional surprises to arrive continues to be to be observed. The Outlaw Tour proceeds on June 26 in Virginia Seaside, Virginia.

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