Bob Dylan introduced out Billy Strings to carry out ‘All Alongside the Watchtower’. Test it out beneath.
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The second happened on Thursday evening (22 Might) at Willie Nelson’s ‘Outlaw Music Pageant Tour’ cease in Spokane, Washington. It marked one among Strings’ remaining performances on the tour, with the musician leaving the rotating line-up yesterday (Might 25).
The efficiency noticed Strings on acoustic guitar and Dylan on vocals and piano as they re-worked his 1967 hit. Take a look at fan-shot footage beneath.
Beforehand on the ‘Outlaw Music Pageant Tour’, Dylan lined The Pogues’ ‘A Wet Night time in Soho’ for the primary time, and broke out the primary dwell rendition of ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ in 15 years.
He additionally lined Ricky Nelson’s ‘Backyard Occasion’ – a observe that features a reference to himself – for the primary time ever.
The tour will run for 36 dates, and can embrace performances from the likes of Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night time Sweats, and The Avett Brothers. You will discover a full listing of dates right here, and any remaining tickets right here.
In different Bob Dylan information, there are rumours that Timothée Chalamet – who performed the songwriter in A Full Unknown – could also be planning to interrupt out a few of the artist’s basic tracks alongside a canopy band at Glastonbury 2025.
Nothing has been confirmed as of but, nevertheless, some tabloids together with The Solar have claimed that the actor is planning on performing a short set with the Bob Dylan tribute group Not Fully Unknown on Saturday June 28. They’re allegedly going to be acting on the Acoustic Stage, which solely has house for just a few thousand individuals in comparison with the 200,000-capacity Pyramid Stage.
If the looks at Glasto 2025 have been to materialise, it might observe on from Chalamet delivering a dwell efficiency on Saturday Night time Stay earlier this yr, which noticed him play a trio of the singer’s tracks.
NME gave the biopic a four-star evaluate, with Alex Flood writing: “An important (and sometimes trickiest) job of any music film is to get the music proper. And this nails that. When you’re a Bob beginner, you’ll go away the cinema able to dive into his again catalogue. When you’re already a fan, the subsequent few weeks shall be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or studying the lore round a scene you weren’t acquainted with. And that’s why it was a good suggestion to make this movie – a mad thought, however one.”
Talking concerning the significance of committing himself to the character, Chalamet then informed NME in January that he was prepared to work so long as doable to get the character and musical performances proper within the biopic.
“I had the time to place the ten,000 hours in, which in a three-month, four-month interval you actually can’t… There wasn’t a deadline on it,” he mentioned. “I wasn’t studying for anybody else. I used to be studying for myself.”
