There are two things remarkable about Bob Dylan’s current (continuing) tour: he is performing two sets and the setlist hasn’t changed since the beginning of November. I am going on Saturday November 28th and if I can swing it maybe on the night before Thanksgiving as well. One look at this setlist and you can see why. Heavy on current stuff with only two songs from the golden age and I could care less. Show me a show that opens with “Things Have Changed”, includes another movie soundtrack song, the excellent “Waitin’ For You”, has four songs that open albums, five songs off Tempest, (including the two best) and ends with a very early song and a Sinatra song that will be off his next release, and I’ll show you a set worth catching twice.
Oh and not a thing off The Complete Basement Tapes.
All four night at the Beacon sold out.
Set 1
Things Have Changed
She Belongs to Me
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Workingman’s Blues #2
Waiting for You
Duquesne Whistle
Pay in Blood
Tangled Up in Blue
Love Sick
Set 2
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Simple Twist of Fate
Early Roman Kings
Forgetful Heart
Spirit on the Water
Scarlet Town
Soon after Midnight
Long and Wasted Years
Encore:
Blowin’ in the Wind
Stay With Me
