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Bob Dylan Performs Streaming Show Out Of Santa Monica
Bob Dylan has returned to live performance for fans globally via streaming with his first show since 2019.
The one-off streaming event, titled ‘Shadow Kingdom’, saw Dylan setlist covering his predominately early years, in contrast to his usually ‘current album focused’ shows.
In some cases Dylan dug deep. The rare ‘Oh Mercy’ track ‘What Was It You Wanted’ had not been plated since 1995. Dylan had not performed the ‘John Wesley Harding’ track ‘Pledging My Time’ since 1999.
Dylan 13 track setlist featured three tracks from 1967’s ‘John Wesley Harding’ and two from ‘1965’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. 1971’s ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’, while originally from The Band’s ‘Cohorts’ was also released a month later on ‘Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol II’. ‘Watching The River Flow’ also first appeared on that album.
At his mysterious best, Bob Dylan shines in the shadows His first broadcast since MTV 1995, Shadow Kingdom was concert noir if ever there was such a genre; mysterious, melodic, at times melancholy yet stunning all the way Shantanu Datta | Published 19.07.21, 09:17 AM
Masked men in black hats play the mandolin, accordion and guitar. A lone woman, her face under cover too, handles the upright bass. They are huddled together at the rear, forming a protective arc around the man. Bob Dylan is singing. He is sounding good. Very good. He’s at a smoky café with men and women; it’s all black and white, but not quite. Light and shade. Grey, steel grey, a burst of a blinding spotlight. It’s gone!
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Rolling Stone Menu 20 Overlooked Bob Dylan Classics
Lesser-known tracks that deserve places in the pantheon
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“You’re No Good” ( “Going, Going, Gone” (
One of his last great studio performances with the Band and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (
Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV, drinking a beer. Ah, the Seventies.
“Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)” (
Street Legal, 1978)
A few beers later, here he is at the end of
Street Legal, with his final words before collapsing into the Christian years and his Eighties malaise. He asks the same question he used to ask Sweet Marie, but this is definitely the sound of a man on the brink of a cosmic breakdown.