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3 November 2024

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Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour

There is no support act and Bob Dylan will be performing at 7.30pm

Bob Dylan  will bring his  Rough and Rowdy Ways  World tour to M&S Bank Arena Liverpool on Sunday, November 3 rd 2024.

The tour is the latest leg of an epic run of shows which began in December 2021 in Milwaukee and has seen one of our greatest living songwriters perform to hundreds of venues across the US, UK and Europe and Japan.

These upcoming concerts are an opportunity to experience this great artist on stage for a series of very special evenings. What’s more, the shows are in partnership with Yondr who will prohibit the use of video cameras and mobile phones, making the occasion even more unique.

Hospitality

One night only, getting here.

Most Liverpool city centre bound buses will call at either Queen Square bus station (a 15-minute walk) or Liverpool ONE Bus Station, which is only a five minute walk to M&S Bank Arena.

For further information on bus routes within Merseyside, you can visit https://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/customer-information/routes-and-maps/

For up-to-date information on all bus, train and ferry services, call Traveline Merseyside on 0871 200 22 33, open 8am – 8pm, 364 days a year or visit  www.merseytravel.gov.uk

For all car journeys it's best to follow the white on brown tourist route signs for the Waterfront. These signs are visible on the major routes into the city. Exhibition Centre Liverpool is situated on the Kings Dock directly adjacent to the south side of the Albert Dock. Upon arrival, the Kings Dock entrance is clearly sign posted.

From the North...

Leave the M6 at junction 26 and follow signs for M58 Liverpool. Follow to end of M58 and then take signs for A59 Liverpool. Continue to follow Liverpool City Centre until picking up signs for the Waterfront. 

From the South...

Leave the M6 at junction 21A and take the M62 to Liverpool. At the end of the M62 follow signs for Liverpool City Centre along Edge Lane, picking up and following signs for Waterfront. 

From the south...

Avanti West Coast operates hourly, direct services from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street (with a journey time of just over two hours). Other long-distance rail services also operate into Liverpool Lime Street station.

M&S Bank Arena is a 20-minute walk from Lime Street or a short taxi ride. You can also transfer at Lime Street onto the underground Wirral Line trains to James Street station (10 minute walk) or catch the CityLink Route C4 (7am – 8pm) directly to the venue. If travelling from outside Merseyside, you can catch an underground train to James Street station from Lime Street station, inclusive of the cost of your train ticket.

Flying into Liverpool John Lennon Airport...

A taxi from the airport to the city centre will take approximately 20 minutes or the express bus service Route 500 will take approximately 25 minutes, dropping you off within a five minute walk of M&S Bank Arena, while Manchester’s international airport is just 45 minutes away by car.

This concert is a phone free show - details below

IMPORTANT: This concert is a "PHONE FREE SHOW", this means that phones are not allowed in the hall during the concert. How it works? Once you arrive at the venue, Yondr (the phone pouch company engaged on this concert) will have its dedicated staff available to help you put your phone in a locked and secure pouch, which you will keep with you throughout the evening. What should I do if I have an emergency and need to access my phone? You can unlock your phone pocket at any time by going to a dedicated and signposted area, intended for phone use. Do not hesitate to ask a Yondr staff member to help you. Why are we doing this and is it mandatory? By promoter request, having created this phone-free experience on their recent tours, they believe it creates better times for everyone in attendance. Our eyes open a little more and our senses are slightly sharper when we lose the technological crutch we've grown accustomed to. This is mandatory (although medical exemptions are made for those who rely on their phone for treatment)

Accessibility Bookings

Accessible Bookings

To book accessible tickets please call our box office on 0344 8000 400 on the day that the event goes on sale - this applies to both presale and general sale. 

Our contact centre is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

The M&S Bank Arena has recently partnered with Nimbus Disability and The Access Card to ensure customers' needs are met at events. Nimbus is one of the country’s leading providers of disability-related advice and support to professional organisations and is recognised as a leading authority on accessible ticketing in the UK.

To ensure the right tickets are sold to the right people, we will require all access bookers for events at ACC Liverpool to provide us with a Nimbus registration number to qualify for any accessible tickets or discounts available at the time of booking. Registering is free to Ticket Quarter customers with an option to upgrade for £15 to have access to all participating venues. For more information please visit here .

Seating Plan - Full Arena Seated

This is a full arena seated event. This is a standard seating layout for M&S Bank Arena for guidance only, as each event layout is unique, so please refer to the individual plan provided when booking your tickets online as the actual layout may differ from this image.  

You can find more venue layout plans here.

Accessibility Map

Our   new on-site temporary multi-deck car park is now open.

Kings Dock Car Park

There are  1450 parking spaces  available in the on-site Kings Dock Car Park, with accessible bays and electric charging points on every floor.

There is plenty of parking nearby too, more information on driving to the venue and parking can be found here.

Age Restriction

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult

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Artists on the bill with Bob Dylan

New at bobserve.com: supporting & featuring acts, bobserve introduces a new heavily-researched feature.

We set out to add to bobserve.com acts that either supported or featured alongside Bob Dylan across his 60+ years on stage. This has entailed countless hours of original investigative sleuthing by bobserve’s overworked Research Team. Trawling through decades of dusty newspaper reviews and ads, books and interviews, and scrutinizing posters, concert reviews at boblinks , and social media posts. Our bobserve facebook page has also reached out to some artists directly.

Even with all this research - almost 1,800 concerts have acts on the bill logged - this remains a work-in-progress, with additional acts to be discovered. Keep reading to see how you can help!

How to check this out

Visit the musicians menu in the top bar at bobserve.com for:

Everyone on the bill (a list of all the acts)

A search box for act names

Also, click on any act name for a page listing all their performances, such as Edie Brickell & New Bohemians .

Let’s run the numbers

Dylan has played in so many places around the world that it has given him the opportunity to showcase more than 400 different acts . Of these, around 250 appeared just one time with him .

Here are those who most frequently performed on the same bill as Bob Dylan . This includes dates scheduled through September 2024, and places Willie Nelson’s 100th concert appearance with Dylan on August 10, 2024 in George, WA .

(Note: prior to 1965, Dylan’s appearances with Joan Baez were as a guest during her set, and so for those he was not a supporting act. Other times, she was his guest.)

Various findings

Sometimes other acts on the bill had guests of their own, such as when Jackson Browne sat in on Marc Cohn’s set in 1992 , and Eric Clapton played on Jimmy Vaughan’s set in 2006 .

In Juan-les-Pins in 1992 Dylan played Hey Joe because the opening band had closed with it. Listen here . That opening band is still unidentified! Do you know who it was?

John Hammond opened for Dylan in Buffalo in 1965 , confirmed by Hammond himself in a MySpace message to one lucky concert attendee, Phil Drum.

When Dylan opened for Neil Young in 1996 , Neil changed a lyric to mention Dylan in the song Pocahontas while Dylan watched from the side of the stage. Listen here (at the four minute mark: “Bob Dylan, Cleopatra, and me”).

Several support acts have ended up joining Dylan on stage, such as Tracy Chapman , Elvis Costello , and Jewel .

A band called Twist of Fate opened in Linz in 1991. (No, not these guys !)

Tony Garnier ’s brother opened in Lafayette 1992 , performing as D'Jalma Garnier's French Band.

Montreux 1994 , Dylan insisted on playing before the support act, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones . Béla Fleck recounts this story in the San Diego Union-Tribune (Dec 21, 2021)

“We were so excited to open for him,” Fleck recalled. “We were like: ‘Awesome. This is the biggest gig of our career!’ We got there at the venue and Bob had done his soundcheck first. We got ready to do our soundcheck and here were these big ‘muscle guys’ in Bob’s road crew. They told us: ‘No one is coming on this stage.’ We said: ‘But we’re the opening act. It’s been approved.’ And they replied: ‘Sorry, no one is coming on Mr. Dylan’s stage until after he performs. So, Bob went on first. When he finished, they took all his gear down. We then put our gear up, did our soundcheck and played to 40 people. Thank you, Bob! It was nothing personal; his crew was protecting him and his gear.”

David Bromberg opened in 1997 , performing two songs with Dylan's own band ( boblinks.com )

Not just music

Comedian Steven Wright has opened for Dylan. Twice (1992 and 1999).

Another comedian, Mike Pace , opened in St. Louis 1994. He’s self-described as coming “on to the comedy scene with a mullet, an oversized jacket, a skinny tie and a pair of untied high-tops.”

Dennis Hopper read Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If , at the New Orleans late show in 1976. Listen here .

Dylan as support act

We have a special page for when Dylan himself opened the show for the likes of Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, John Lee Hooker, and The Rolling Stones. Also: The Smothers Brothers, who had a six-week residency at the Satire in June/July 1960. According to Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan , a girl Bob knew suggested he introduce himself to Walt Conley, a singer who was managing the duo. Conley let Dylan do a short opening set at the Satire. Dylan was later “accused of stealing Conley’s record collection before hightailing it out of town” ( colomusic.org ).

Familiar faces

Multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron , currently on tour with Dylan and already number three in the list of musicians who performed live with him the most times, has even more Dylan shows under his belt than that. He was a member of BR5-49 , the opening act for 22 concerts.

Bucky Baxter , beloved band member from 1992 to 1999, as interviewed by Scott Marshall : “ I was playing with Steve Earle [& The Dukes] . We’d opened up a whole tour for Bob [in 1989]. So I was just playing with G.E. Smith on the sound checks when Bob invited me to sit in. He asked me to get him a steel guitar, so I bought him a steel in Nashville and gave him some lessons. Then when that tour was over he got my phone number and, I thought, ‘Well, cool, I’m going to get this great gig.’ But then he never called. Two years later he called me up on like a Monday saying, ‘Be here Tuesday, we’re leaving Thursday for Australia.’ That’s basically how it happened.”

The upcoming Outlaw shows with Willie Nelson feature Robert Plant & Alison Krauss . Back in 1995, Dylan’s support included four shows with Alison Krauss & Union Station .

“They won’t have any solo acoustic acts opening up for Dylan; that’s the rule”

Brenda Kahn opened for Dylan twice in February 1992 , and reports this prohibition on solo support acts in Working Musicians by Bruce Pollock.

Melissa Ferrick tells here the entertaining story of her own 1992 opening act experience. She had to put together her first ever band to meet the support act rule but, due to an unforeseen twist, she actually ended up performing her act solo.

Jimmie Vaughan

Jimmie Vaughan was a surprise guest guitarist at the recent Austin concert on April 6, 2024. Did you know he was a “featuring” artist on the same bill as Bob Dylan back in June/July 2007, 34 shows in all?

How you can help

Hey, did you open for Dylan but can’t find yourself listed on the site?

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The small print

It can be difficult at times to determine if an act is a featured artist or support, and so in some cases we have used billing on advertisement and tickets as clues.

For Rolling Thunder we list the people on the ads as featured artists and those with "solo spots" as support.

We do not list artists on the bill for the large festivals, which often have several different stages.

So, what else is new with bobserve?

View a list of the 30 most recently added audio links to individual songs and full concerts. Link found under the “make you spin” menu item. This is automatically updated.

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Fed up of typing in the year numbers every time, to get a list of that year's concerts? Me, too. Try the new Handy Dandy(TM) year picker in the top menu bar.

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Bob Dylan tour dates 2024

Bob Dylan is currently touring across 7 countries and has 34 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, after that they'll be at The Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown.

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Messehalle Erfurt

Porsche Arena

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Saarlandhalle

La Seine Musicale - La Grande Seine

Mitsubishi Electric HALLE

Rockhal Main Hall

Lotto Arena Antwerpen

Bournemouth International Centre

M&S Bank Arena Liverpool

Motorpoint Arena

Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Royal Albert Hall

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Recent tour reviews

After following Dylan since the early 60s, I finally got to see him at his age of 78! I was super glad to be able to say I saw him. He sang quite a few songs, one right after another and most of them were done fast. The most popular ones that I could decipher had the words right, but the music part of it was very, very different. He did not do his most popular songs over the years. He did what he wanted to do. I was able to recognize 3 songs that I knew well, the others I had heard, but weren't really my favorites. I was just glad he (talked) sang. He did not interact with the audience, he wasn't announced at the beginning, and when he was done he walked off stage. One encore and off again. He did introduce the individual musicians, but it was so fast, I couldn't keep up. No one I recognized. I love him no matter what he chose to do or not do. The Bren Event Center in Irvine holds about 5500 and it was full. Tickets were expensive for me, but I just had to see him live even if I would have had to sell my first born, lol. I'll be paying off my credit card for the charge in 6 months. Good times.

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Unlike many of the fans at Bob Dylan’s show I haven’t seen him countless times. I think I have been to four or five of his shows over a wide span in his career.

My first live experience was in the early seventies at the Los Angeles Forum. I think he was backed by The Band if I remember correctly. It was a great show, I had great seats that were a result of a ticket lottery I think? He sounded just like he did, more or less, on his records.

I think the next time I saw him was at the LA Greek Theatre. A friend and I took a chance and went without tickets in hand. We were very lucky that night scoring tickets that were released from the band just before the show started. We were down front and center. This show was during the G.E. Smith period. I’m sad to say that I was disappointed in this show. Mr. Dylan and his songs were almost unrecognizable to me as I remember. I wasn’t yet able to appreciate the concept of a performer changing their presentations from how they were originally offered. That concept took me a while to appreciate and now I think that I expect it from great performers. But that night not at all...

My next chance to see him was at a remarkable show at UCLA. It was an extravaganza featuring Mr. Dylan, Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell. Three of my musical touchstones. I don’t remember much about this show except we had horrible seats. I think I was mostly affected by the overall show and that I was actually there seeing these three back to back.

Last night seeing him at UCI was very special indeed. My new girlfriend managed to get us very good seats in this small venue, stage right and up above the floor. Due to the security check in we entered the show halfway through the first song, on stage as we searched for our seats was a man playing guitar, we wondered if this was an opening act since we had been led to believe that Mr. Dylan no longer played guitar and this fellow was quite lively on stage as well, belying the stories told to me of his previously aloofness on stage. As we sat we realized that no this was the man. It was a wonderful lead in for me. He played a set that included songs from all of his era’s. Most reinterpreted greatly as far as the music but mostly true to the prose I think. Somewhere in the middle he slowed things down from the energetic pace to give an almost traditional rendition of Girl from the North Country, strikingly beautiful featuring him on the piano primarily. What a night! Mr. Dylan has still got the magic touch in my book, how he continues on the hard life of the road is a testament to his love of what he does I guess. I’m glad he does. Thanks Mr Dylan.

show in Ft. Myers.

First of all, the sound system was terrible. You could understand about every 10th word. Otherwise, it was just a blur and the arrangements were such that they had no relevance to the songs. Maybe a couple of notes. I had to ask my lady, "What song is this?" She answered,"Blowing in the Wind". Weelllll, I have been listening to that song for over 40 years!! I had no idea he was singing that!

Ok, Dylan is Dylan. He will mix up the instruments, but here, along with the vocals on the worst sound system I have heard in years; combined with the worst arrangements, I had no idea what he was singing almost all of the time.

Still, I really liked going. It's probably the last time I will be able to see him in person. He coulda just stood on stage and burped and it would have been worth it. He had long haired women dancing in the iles. Not his women, the audience women(hopefully). Lot of gray hair there in my fellow concert-goers when I looked around but, on the whole, I am really glad I went. I am sure they were too. Whoever reads this; you should go too......Frederick(Rick) H Johnson

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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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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.

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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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Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Have ‘Calmed Down a Lot’ and Help Each Other Stay ‘Sharp’

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are getting rave reviews for their double act on the Outlaw Music Festival tour , and sources exclusively tell Closer their success is due in part to the two music legends helping each other out during tough times.

The "Like a Rolling Stone" singer, 83, joined Willie, 91 — along with an incredible lineup of other artists, including Robert Plant , Alison Krauss  and John Mellencamp — for the tour, which kicked off in June and continues through September 20, 2024.

According to the source, the two iconic musicians "feed off each other and pump new life into their daily routine."

One reviewer said the pair "delivered an incredible set" and that the venue was "packed" with fans cheering them on.

"To them, age is just a number, and they joke they're not dead yet," says the insider. "They talk about the good old days, and that keeps their mental processes sharp."

However, things haven't always been easy for Bob and Willie as they continue to get older.

In fact, Willie had to cancel performances on his Outlaw tour just hours before its June 21 kickoff. He was feeling ill and bowed out due to "doctor's orders." However, the show went on without him, with his son Lukas Nelson and the Family Band playing a lot of the legend's classics.

The singer has actually canceled numerous shows in recent years due to various ailments, including bouts of pneumonia and a long-running battle with emphysema.

"Willie's been through the ringer with emphysema, pneumonia and other ailments and has learned a few things as far as longevity goes and is always happy to share them with Bob, and Bob does the same for Willie," Closer 's source explains.

"Bob is in incredible shape considering the hard-charging life he's lived, and Willie's clinging on and finding new energy levels even after his recent health scare," the insider continues.

"They've calmed down a lot," the source shares. "Willie used to be the biggest weed smoker on the planet, and Bob's had a colorful life, too, but they still like to reminisce and consider themselves part of the cool clan."

Willie's team has kept fans in the loop about his health since he had to step away from the opening night of the summer tour.

A separate source told Closer in July that those in Willie's inner circle are making sure he's watched 24/7 in case he suffers another life-threatening episode.

"His recent illness took the wind out of him, and many feel his return to touring was a bit premature but there's no talking sense to Willie when he's got a blazing fire under him," said the insider. "So, they're doing what they can, hovering over him, making sure he eats and gets enough fluids and rests between sets."

"They know how much performing means to him and doing everything possible to make him comfortable, bringing him teas and even his favorite CBD gummies if he wants," added the source. "You've got to admire Willie. His body may be breaking down and feebler than ever before, but he's got the spirit of an eagle."

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Bob Dylan tickets: Schedule, dates and venues for the west coast tour

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Bob Dylan has 25 west coast concerts on his ongoing tour this spring and summer. Isabel Infantes/PA via AP

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Like the proverbial rolling stone, Bob Dylan’s tour keeps trucking along.

The 81-year-old Nobel Prize winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will play 25 west coast concerts this spring and summer as part of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour.

Dylan has said that he will continue his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, in support of his 39th studio album, all the way up until 2024.

On this run, he’ll stop into locales like Seattle , Oakland , Los Angeles , Salt Lake City and Denver .

If you want to catch “The Voice of Protest” live, here’s everything you need to know.

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Tickets to see the man who inspired the Broadway play North Country live are available on all verified ticketing sites.

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A complete calendar featuring all upcoming Bob Dylan tour dates, venues, show times and  links to buy tickets can be found here .

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Bob Dylan isn’t the only major star on tour this year who has been performing live for more than half a century.

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Bob Dylan Plots Fall 2023 North American Tour

By Andy Greene

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Bob Dylan ‘s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour is coming back to North America in the fall. The leg kicks off Oct. 1 at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. An Oct. 30 show at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York is the final confirmed date, but Dylan’s website notes that “more Fall 2023 dates will be announced soon!”

The Rough and Rowdy Ways tour kicked off November 2, 2021 in Milwaukee. Dylan had been off the road for nearly two years at that point due to the pandemic. Prior to that, he hadn’t missed a single year of touring since the Never Ending Tour kicked off in 1988. He made up for lost time by taking the show all over the world, but he hasn’t played the East Coast of the U.S. since the fall of 2021.

The show did take a surprise left turn earlier in the year when he started playing songs from the Grateful Dead catalog, including “Truckin,” “Brokedown Palace,” “Stella Blue,” and “West L.A. Fadeaway.” He even trotted out Bob Weir’s 2016 solo song “Only a River,” Merle Haggard’s 2010 obscurity “Bad Actor,” and Van Morrison’s 1970 classic “Into the Mystic.” Dylan fans were thrilled by the additions since it added a degree of uncertainty to every show.

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Bob Dylan’s Fall 2023 North American Tour Dates

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 Announces Spring 2024 US Tour [Updated]

The run of shows through the South kicks off on March 1st

Bob Dylan has added another leg of US tour dates to his long-running “Never Ending Tour.”

This time billed in support of Dylan’s 2020 album , the “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour” kicks off with a pair of dates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in early March. He’ll then bring his band across the South, stopping for shows in Orlando, Jacksonville, Athens, and Charlotte.

Update: Dylan has added additional shows in Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, and Austin.

A ticket pre-sale for the newly announced shows is ongoing (use code ENERGY ), ahead of a public on-sale on Friday, February 9th via Ticketmaster .

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Fans can also look for deals and tickets to sold-out shows 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.

After completing multiple legs of his “Never Ending Tour” last year, Dylan also commemorated his 1978 Japanese debut with a comprehensive box set titled The Complete Budokan 1978 . Meanwhile, James Mangold’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown went into production last summer.

Editor’s Note: Learn how to get tickets to Bob Dylan’s 2024 tour dates here .

Bob Dylan 2024 Tour Dates: 03/01 — Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts 03/02 — Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts 03/05 — Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall 03/06 — Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall 03/07 — Fort Myers, FL @ Suncoast Credit Union Arena 03/09 — Orlando, FL @ Walt Disney Theater 03/10 — Orlando, FL @ Walt Disney Theater 03/12 — Jacksonville, FL @ Moran Theater 03/14 — Athens, GA @ The Classic Center 03/15 — Athens, GA @ The Classic Center 03/17 — Charlotte, NC @ Belk Theater 03/18 — Fayetteville, NC @ Crown Theatre 03/21 — Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 03/23 — Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace 03/24 — Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace 03/29 — Memphis, TN @ Orpheum Theatre 03/30 — Memphis, TN @ Orpheum Theatre 04/01 — New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre 04/02 — Lafayette, LA @ Heymann Performing Arts Center 04/04 — Dallas, TX @ Music Hall at Fair Park 04/05 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater 04/06 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater

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Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour: How To Get Tickets to New Dates

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Bob Dylan has just announced his latest tour for 2024, dubbed the Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour. He’s starting his latest string of dates in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center For The Performing Arts before wrapping up his tour in Fayetteville, North Carolina at the Crown Theater.

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Bob Dylan has one of the most storied careers of any American musician. His career spans an astounding 60 years and includes some of the most memorable songs in music. His current tour only includes 12 shows, so if you’re a fan, we suggest buying tickets now. 

If you want to see Bob Dylan live, tickets are available now through 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.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will be centering the latest iteration of the Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour around Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, giving fans in the region something to look forward to during March.

While we can’t be certain as to which songs Bob Dylan will be playing on the Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour, fans can hope to hear the legendary singer bring out some of the hits, including “Blowin’ in The Wind”, “The Times Are a-Changin”, and of course “Like a Rolling Stone”.

Bob Dylan’s Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour has been going on since 2021. It follows Dylan’s Never Ending Tour which ended in 2019. Since then, Dylan has released a handful of albums featuring new songs that he may play as well. 

If you’re interested in seeing an icon of American music perform live, we suggest getting your tickets now. Bob Dylan’s latest tour only includes 12 dates, so tickets are sure to move fast. To see Bob Dylan live, get your official tickets directly through StubHub or by clicking here .

Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour 2024 Dates:

03/01 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Au-Rene Theater

03/02 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Au-Rene Theater

03/05 – Clearwater, Florida – Ruth Eckerd Hall

03/06 – Clearwater, Florida – Ruth Eckerd Hall

03/07 – Fort Myers, Florida – Suncoast Credit Union Arena

03/09 – Orlando, Florida – Walt Disney Theater

03/10 – Orlando, Florida – Walt Disney Theater

03/12 – Jacksonville, Florida – Moran Theater

03/14 – Athens, Georgia – Classic Center

03/15 – Athens, Georgia – Classic Center

03/17 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Belk Theater

03/18 – Fayetteville, North Carolina – Crown Theatre

When do tickets for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour go on sale?

Tickets for all of Bob Dylan’s shows are on sale now.

Where can I purchase official tickets to the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour?

You can buy official tickets to the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 tour directly through StubHub .

Are there any presale codes or early access opportunities for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour?

No, there aren’t any presale codes or early access opportunities for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 tour as all tickets are already on sale.

How much do Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways tickets cost? Are there different pricing tiers?

Tickets come in different pricing tiers depending on how close you sit to the stage, what concert venue you choose to attend, and what comes with the price of a ticket. Check StubHub for specifics on pricing no matter where you choose to attend.

Is there a limit to how many tickets I can buy?

Yes, StubHub currently has a limit of 16 tickets per transaction. If you want to buy more tickets than that, you may be able to do so in a separate transaction. 

What’s the difference between VIP tickets and regular tickets?

VIP tickets usually come with a wide range of added benefits, sometimes including an exclusive entrance into the stadium/arena, a line-free merchandise shopping experience, free food or drinks, and front-row seating. 

Regular tickets usually just cover the cost of admission and guarantee your seat.

Are there any meet-and-greet or backstage pass opportunities for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 tour?

It doesn’t look like Bob Dylan is offering any meet-and-greet or backstage pass opportunities for his latest run of shows. Check with your local venue for confirmation.

What are the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 tour dates and locations?

While we’ve listed all of Bob Dylan’s latest shows for his 2024 tour run, he may add another leg to his tour later in the year. This is Bob Dylan’s eighth leg of his Rough And Rowdy Ways tour, so who’s to say he won’t add a ninth? Check back for more information.

Is there an age restriction for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour?

There shouldn’t be any age restrictions or requirements for the latest Bob Dylan tour but check with your local concert venue through StubHub for confirmation. 

Can I get a refund or exchange my ticket if I can’t attend?

Ticket refunds and exchanges are subject to the venue’s policy. Please contact the venue directly for more information.

Can I bring a camera or recording device to the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour concert dates?

You can bring personal recording equipment like the camera on your phone but you won’t be allowed to bring professional camera equipment or a camera bag.

Will merchandise be available for purchase at the concert?

Yes, Bob Dylan merchandise should be available for purchase at the concert venue. 

Are there opening acts or special guests for the Bob Dylan Rough And Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour?

Bob Dylan hasn’t announced who he’ll be joined by for his 2024 tour run, so check back later to see who may support him. 

What happens if the concert is postponed or canceled?

If the concert is postponed, your tickets will be valid for the new date. If the concert is canceled, you will be eligible for a refund. Please note that this information is subject to change.

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Review: Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan deliver the last — and most momentous — doubleheader of the summer

John Mellencamp set the table for the two musical giants outdoors in Somerset, Wis.

By Jon Bream

SOMERSET, Wis. — It’s been the summer of concert twofers — Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins, Def Leppard and Journey, Metallica and Pantera, Earth Wind & Fire and Chicago, Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie.

None of those doubleheaders can compare to Friday’s Outlaw Music Festival, aka Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, here at Somerset Amphitheater. Two American musical treasures, Mount Rushmorian giants who have recorded for decades, veteran road warriors with so much gravitas that Rock & Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp was relegated to an opening act.

Age is just a number for Willie, 91, and Dylan, 83. Their freewheeling phrasing, their commanding presence without much patter and their wizened readings of their familiar songs made for an evening that felt both momentous and valedictory even though neither shows signs of stopping to tour.

While both longtimers worked with stripped-down quartets, their work and impact weren’t diminished. The fans seemed equally divided between those wearing Dylan and Willie T-shirts and hoodies. Dylan kept all but the faithful guessing about what song he was singing, and Willie sent the nearly 18,000 folks home humming a few favorites.

It was the second consecutive summer that Willie brought the Outlaw fest to Somerset; last year Robert Plant & Alison Krauss were in the Dylan slot. The Hibbing-reared bard hasn’t performed in the Twin Cities area since 2017 at Xcel Energy Center. He last appeared in his home state in 2019 in Mankato, but he hadn’t teamed with Willie in the area since 2005 at the old Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

As he has done all summer, Dylan threw in some covers of popular songs, including Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie” and the Fleetwoods’ “Mr. Blue,” during his 75-minute set. He also dusted off a handful of his classics, including “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” and a large helping of 20th century material such as “Love Sick” and “Simple Twist of Fate” from 1975′s made-in-Minneapolis “Blood on the Tracks.” Surprisingly, there was nothing from 2020′s excellent “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”

As always, Dylan, playing piano and harmonica, reimagined his material, with “Hard Rain” becoming a sparse hymn and “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” starting as a drawn-out ballad and bursting into a rocker. His voice sounded softer, but it still had bite, with his spitting out lyrics to the lazy blues shuffle “Early Roman Kings” and on the intense, stinging finale “Ballad of a Thin Man.”

“Little Queenie” was more of a shuffle than a rocker, with the usually laconic Dylan uttering “thank you, Chuck” at song’s end. He also mentioned that “Shooting Star” was about a “friend of mine.” He introduced harmonica player Mickey Raphael from Willie’s band, who added eloquence to “Simple Twist of Fate,” but Dylan never introduced his four sidemen.

Willie’s hourlong set was similar to the one he performed in May in Duluth, except he added the new “Last Leaf on a Tree,” an instant crowd winner that will be the title cut of his Nov. 1 album. In recent years, he has recorded several songs dealing with mortality, but the emphasis Friday was on old favorites.

His acoustic guitar work — at turns jazzy, twangy, bluesy and elegant — was as expressive as his voice. His ballads, especially the lovely “Always on My Mind” and “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground,” warmed the crowd on a cool, late-summer night while the thigh-slapping “Bloody Mary Morning” and “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” had the fans heartily singing along.

“Hope you had a good night,” Willie said as he got up from his chair. “I’ll come back and see ya.”

Mellencamp, a relative youngster at age 72, performed for a quick hour, punctuated with his bluesy snarl, sing-along hits and the sun staring him in the eyes. In introducing one of his nonhits, “Longest Days,” he cited advice from his 100-year-old grandma. At the end of the song, he added a spoken-word coda, “Let’s try to be nice and kind to each other again.” It was a message that complemented his other tunes like “Pink Houses.”

Southern Avenue, a Memphis soul band, opened the nearly six-hour program at the amphitheater that has presented Luke Bryan, Hootie & the Blowfish and Limp Bizkit this summer.

about the writer

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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