Bob Dylan played in Seoul, South Korea on Friday night (July 27) and changed his setlist a little to include songs that he rarely goes to.
The 1971 Dylan composed The Band song ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’ was played for the first time since 2011.
‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’ was recorded for The Band’s ‘Cahoots’ but Dylan also recorded his own version with Leon Russell in New York in March 1971. Bob’s version would later surface on Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II two month of the release of The Band version.
Dylan also dug back to the 1979 Grammy Award winning ‘Slow Train Coming’ album to perform ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’. The song won the Grammy for ‘Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male’.
‘Slow Train Coming’ was a number one album in Australia so inclusion of the song in the Australian setlist will go down well.
‘Slow Train Coming’ was Dylan’s first of a trilogy of Christian albums. John Lennon replied to the song with his own song ‘Serve Yourself’.
Bob Dylan setlist South Korea 27 July 2018
All Along the Watchtower (from John Wesley Harding, 1968)
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)
Highway 61 Revisited (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Simple Twist of Fate (from Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
Duquesne Whistle (from Tempest, 2012)
When I Paint My Masterpiece (from Greatest Hits Vol II, 1971)
Honest With Me (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (from Time Out of Mind, 1997)
Make You Feel My Love (from Time Out of Mind, 1997)
Pay in Blood (from Tempest, 2012)
Tangled Up in Blue (from Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
Early Roman Kings (from Tempest, 2012)
Desolation Row (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Love Sick (from Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
Autumn Leaves (from Shadow In The Night, 2015)
Thunder on the Mountain (from Modern Times, 2006)
Soon After Midnight (from Tempest, 2012)
Gotta Serve Somebody (from Slow Train Coming, 1979)
Encore:
Blowin’ in the Wind (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1962)
Ballad of a Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Michael Chugg will tour Bob Dylan for Australia starting 8 August in Perth.
Bob Dylan tour dates
8 August, Perth, Perth Arena
11 August, Adelaide, Bonython Park
13 and 14 August, Melbourne, Margaret Court Arena
18 August, Sydney, ICC Sydney Theatre
20 August, Wollongong, WIN Entertainment Centre
22 and 24 August, Brisbane, Entertainment Centre
New Zealand:
26 August, Auckland, Spark Arena
28 August, Christchurch, Horncastle Arena
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