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Bob Dylan kicking off NYC run (here are his last 4 setlists)

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan doesn’t deliver knockout punches anymore. He feints, he jabs and every now and then he stings with a left hook.

Saturday night at Tsongas Arena, the sharp hooks were “Simple Twist of Fate” and “Ballad of a Thin Man.” They’re two of Dylan’s best, and they were the rare tunes where he left the keyboard and electric guitar behind and ventured to the microphone stand armed with just a harmonica. He cut into “Thin Man” fiercely: “Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”

Can’t help but wonder that about Dylan nowadays.

The man has acquired a habit of running roughshod over his tunes. He has a crack backing quintet, led by guitarist Charlie Sexton, and they’re tight, Dylan among them. But as a singer, there were moments when Dylan was so rough he out-growled Tom Waits. In “Love Sick,” “Visions of Johanna” and “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum,” you wondered what the mumbled words hurtling past were. [Boston Herald]

Bob Dylan kicks off a three-night run at NYC’s Terminal 5 tonight (11/22). His last four setlists, all sixteen songs long and ending with an encore of “Jolene” and “Like A Rolling Stone”, are listed below…


Poughkeepsie, New York
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
November 16, 2010

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
2. This Wheel’s On Fire
3. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
4. Just Like A Woman
5. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
6. Simple Twist Of Fate
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
8. Visions Of Johanna
9. Honest With Me
10. Masters Of War
11. Summer Days
12. Nettie Moore
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(encore)
15. Jolene
16. Like A Rolling Stone


Binghamton, New York
Binghamton University
Events Center
November 17, 2010

1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
2. The Man In Me
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
5. The Levee’s Gonna Break
6. Spirit On The Water
7. Honest With Me
8. Desolation Row
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
10. Blind Willie McTell
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Love Sick
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(encore)
15. Jolene
16. Like A Rolling Stone


Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mullins Center
November 19, 2010

1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
2. Shooting Star
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4. Spirit On The Water
5. Rollin’ And Tumblin’
6. Tangled Up In Blue
7. Honest With Me
8. Can’t Wait
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
10. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Workingman’s Blues #2
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(encore)
15. Jolene
16. Like A Rolling Stone


Lowell, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Tsongas Center
November 20, 2010

1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
2. It Ain’t Me, Babe
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4. Love Sick
5. Rollin’ And Tumblin’
6. Simple Twist Of Fate
7. Honest With Me
8. Visions Of Johanna
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
10. Tangled Up In Blue
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Not Dark Yet
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(encore)
15. Jolene
16. Like A Rolling Stone

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