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I saw a Dylan show about two weeks ago, Sun Oct 8, in Chicago. He and the band sounded as good as ever. Very talented group. I’m sure if you are a Dylan fan you would have loved the show. I love some Dylan songs but he did not play any that I knew and those songs I do know such as Multitudes was played in an unrecognizable way. The venue stopped selling beer a half hour after the show started. About an hour after the show started I had enjoyed enough and decided I’d rather be at a pub down the street.

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I saw a Dylan show about two weeks ago, Sun Oct 8, in Chicago. He and the band sounded as good as ever. Very talented group. I’m sure if you are a Dylan fan you would have loved the show. I love some Dylan songs but he did not play any that I knew and those songs I do know such as Multitudes was played in an unrecognizable way. The venue stopped selling beer a half hour after the show started. About an hour after the show started I had enjoyed enough and decided I’d rather be at a pub down the street.

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What an amazing autumn, Dylan on tour, Stones and Beatles releasing new

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...Looks like Bob will be playing songs that are related to the cities he plays. Nice. Peace. M

I am liking this twist. A lot.

Where do I submit my recommendations (as if Bob listens to recommendations ) for the November 27 Richmond concert?

My initial ideas for show openers and closers include:

* "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." In tribute to writer, leader of The Band, and his friend Robbie Robertson, who died Aug 9, 2023. I believe you don't have to be wistful for the Confederacy (I've long been just fatigued by its apologists and am glad the monuments are finally gone) to appreciate the power and beauty of this song. But maybe the song itself has become verboten, too, IDK.

* "Oregon Hill" by the Cowboy Junkies. About an old, working class neighborhood in Richmond. I heard them perform it here in 1996.

* "John Henry," traditional. The black prisoner assigned to a work gang who the legend and song were based on most likely was a Richmond Penitentiary prisoner named John Henry who laid C&O railroad rails westward through the Lewis Tunnel in 1870-73.
[balladofjohnhenry.com]
This history is little known, however.

* "Rich Men North of Richmond." Don't know if Bob is open to this unexpected, unprecedented phenomenon, its writer now having been bashed from both political extremes. I'm guessing it's a "No," though.

* "Richmond" by Joe Bonamassa
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Or, looking to the state more broadly:

* "Sweet Virginia" by some English band

* "Dear Doctor." Ditto.
There will be no wedding today.

* "Who'll Stop the Rain?" by John Fogerty. I went down Virginia, seeking shelter from the storm

(Do I really want to hear this one? No. But Bob does love his Sinatra covers, so: )
* "I Went Down to Virginia", from Frank Sinatra, The Complete Recordings: The Columbia Years 1943-1952
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My original hometown is Norfolk, so I personally wouldn't mind Dylan doing:
* "The Promised Land" by Chuck Berry.
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia, California on my mind.* Shades of John Henry and Ledbelly, a dream of freedom written while Chuck was in prison.
(* Elvis loved The Promised Land, named a whole album for his cover of it. But sang those lines actually in Norfolk, Virginia only one day, ever, July 20, 1975, in Norfolk Scope. I was there, just twenty, and oddly enough not even an Elvis fan yet. Only the 1976(?) releaase of 1954-55 Elvis, The Sun Sessions, changed my mind. And why did I buy The Sun Sessions? Because I read Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone say that's what he was listening to. If Dylan was, okay, I'd give "Earliest Elvis" a try. I'm glad I did.)


As for Dylan's coming Roanoke, Virginia concert, maybe:

* "The Wreck of the Old 97"

* something Carter Family

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* "East Virginia Blues." Dylan played it in 1969 with Earl Scruggs. Which I didn't even know until yesterday when I bought the Bootleg Series Vol. 15, and I only just now heard it.

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* "East Virginia Blues." Dylan played it in 1969 with Earl Scruggs. Which I didn't even know until yesterday when I bought the Bootleg Series Vol. 15, and I only just now heard it.

1971. Its from an Earl Scruggs PBS TV special. Great version, too

video: [www.youtube.com]

better quality here : [www.reddit.com]

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Just back from an evening in Providence RI with the guy with the voice ‘like sand and glue.’ Very solid performance by Bob and his excellent 5 piece band. I was in the 3rd row and the only small bummer was Bob was behind a grand piano the entire show, so we all spent a lot of time looking at the top of his head (could see the band just fine, and Bob when we would stand every so often). And of course that didn’t stop one entitled jerk in the 2nd row from standing (luckily he didn’t effect me), DEspite pleas for him to ‘STFDown’. Some people.
1/2 the set was from his latest, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Also a bit of a drag was no phones (you had to place them in this pouch they unlock after). So no pics. Oh well- still glad I went. PPAC is a lovely theatre. And if we’ve learned one thing it’s that these legends will not be around for ever.

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* "East Virginia Blues." Dylan played it in 1969 with Earl Scruggs. Which I didn't even know until yesterday when I bought the Bootleg Series Vol. 15, and I only just now heard it.

1971. Its from an Earl Scruggs PBS TV special. Great version, too

video: [www.youtube.com]

better quality here : [www.reddit.com]

Nice, thanks.

On further consideration I'd move this one from "good for the Richmond show" to better suited for his upcoming Roanoke show. Virginia's mountain hollers are west of Richmond.

Again, a shame he ditched this whole idea he began this leg with, after only 2 or 3 cities.

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Just back from an evening in Providence RI with the guy with the voice ‘like sand and glue.’ Very solid performance by Bob and his excellent 5 piece band. I was in the 3rd row and the only small bummer was Bob was behind a grand piano the entire show, so we all spent a lot of time looking at the top of his head (could see the band just fine, and Bob when we would stand every so often). And of course that didn’t stop one entitled jerk in the 2nd row from standing (luckily he didn’t effect me), DEspite pleas for him to ‘STFDown’. Some people.
1/2 the set was from his latest, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Also a bit of a drag was no phones (you had to place them in this pouch they unlock after). So no pics. Oh well- still glad I went. PPAC is a lovely theatre. And if we’ve learned one thing it’s that these legends will not be around for ever.

Any guesses how your 11th row folks fared as far as Bob's visibility? Nov. 27th I'll be 11th row, right of center.

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Any guesses how your 11th row folks fared as far as Bob's visibility? Nov. 27th I'll be 11th row, right of center.

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Sony just released this year's copyright protection/50th anniversary collection Dylan CD

[www.discogs.com]


there were only a handful of copies available at a handful of handpicked stores in a few European countries – same procedure as every year

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slewan
Sony just released this year's copyright protection/50th anniversary collection Dylan CD

[www.discogs.com]


there were only a handful of copies available at a handful of handpicked stores in a few European countries – same procedure as every year

I'm listening to this set now. I can understand why it was released in such a small quantity.

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slewan
Sony just released this year's copyright protection/50th anniversary collection Dylan CD

[www.discogs.com]


there were only a handful of copies available at a handful of handpicked stores in a few European countries – same procedure as every year

I'm listening to this set now. I can understand why it was released in such a small quantity.

of course. The only reason is that they want to protect the copyright, i.e. prevent other people from making money with that stuff.

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slewan
Sony just released this year's copyright protection/50th anniversary collection Dylan CD

[www.discogs.com]


there were only a handful of copies available at a handful of handpicked stores in a few European countries – same procedure as every year

I'm listening to this set now. I can understand why it was released in such a small quantity.

of course. The only reason is that they want to protect the copyright, i.e. prevent other people from making money with that stuff.

Yup. This one is interesting, but there were other similar releases from Bob's Copyright Collection that I like better.