{"id":2448473,"date":"2019-09-09T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=881677"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:21:52","slug":"bob-dylan-plots-north-american-fall-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/bob-dylan-plots-north-american-fall-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Plots North American Fall Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Dylan<\/a> has rolled out dates for a U.S. fall tour kicking off October 11th in Irvine, California at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center and wraps up November 21st in Philadelphia at The Met Philadelphia. He has played extensively in Europe this year, but these will be his first North American dates of 2019.<\/p>\n

Dylan\u2019s Never Ending Tour turned 30 this year. He used to play around 100 shows a year (peaking in 2004 with 113 gigs), but he\u2019s scaled it back in recent years. He played 84 shows last year and is on pace to play just 66 this year unless more shows are added. He often sticks to theaters and tiny arenas, but his most recent European tour wrapped up with two massive outdoor co-headlining shows with Neil Young. The final night saw them perform \u201cWill The Circle Be Unbroken\u201d<\/a> together, which was their first time sharing a stage since 2004.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been an album of new Dylan songs since 2012\u2019s Tempest<\/em>, though he did release three records where he covered American standards between 2015 and 2017. He played many of those songs live in that period, but over the past year his setlist has been devoted entirely to originals songs. Most recently, he\u2019s been mixing classics like \u201cLike a Rolling Stone,\u201d \u201cBlowin\u2019 In The Wind,\u201d \u201cSimple Twist of Fate\u201d and \u201cHighway 61 Revisited\u201d with new tunes like \u201cScarlet Town, \u201cSoon After Midnight\u201d and \u201cPay In Blood\u201d along with older fan favorites like \u201cWhen I Paint My Masterpiece\u201d and \u201cTryin\u2019 To Get To Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next chapter of Dylan\u2019s ongoing Bootleg Series has yet to be announced, but a source close to the Dylan camp told Rolling Stone<\/em> earlier this year<\/a> that it is likely to center on the sessions for 1967\u2019s John Wesley Harding<\/em> and 1969\u2019s Nashville Skyline<\/em>, including the legendary Johnny Cash sessions.<\/p>\n