Bob Dylan has been delivering stunning shows with a crack band featuring the world’s best musicians and a setlist heavy on his works since 1997. The recent music is surprising the fly by night fans expecting the greatest hits.
Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers has articulated perfectly why a Dylan greatest hits set would be so very wrong.
“There’s nothing you can say about Bob Dylan,” Tench said. “To live in a time when Bob Dylan is making music and still putting out really good music is to live in a time when Walt Whitman is putting out poetry, when Yeats is writing poetry, when Gershwin is presenting new songs, when Dickens is saying, ‘Here’s my latest novel’ and when Melville is putting out a little book called ‘Moby Dick.’ That’s the level and that’s the privilege that we have and that’s what we should be aware of that Bob Dylan is in the world and we have to really cherish that Bob Dylan is in the world.”
Dylan is touring Australia for Chugg Entertainment. He has now completed dates in Perth and Melbourne. This week Bob Dylan will perform in Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide and then head to Sydney.
REVIEW: Bob Dylan in Melbourne
Bob Dylan setlist Melbourne, August 18, 2014
Things Have Changed (from The Essential Bob Dylan, 1999)
She Belongs To Me (from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Working Man’s Blues #2 (from Modern Times, 2006)
Waiting For You (from The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack, 2002)
Duquesne Whistle (from Tempest, 2012)
Pay In Blood (from Tempest, 2012)
Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On The Tracks, 1974)
Love Sick (from Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
High Water (For Charley Patton) (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Simple Twist Of Fate (from Blood On The Tracks, 1974)
Early Roman Kings (from Tempest, 2012)
Forgetful Heart (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Spirit On The Water (from Modern Times, 2006)
Scarlet Town (from Tempest, 2012)
Soon After Midnight (from Tempest, 2012)
Long And Wasted Years (from Tempest, 2012)
All Along The Watchtower (from John Wesley Harding, 1968)
Blowin’ In The Wind (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1962)
