IT’S ALL BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK - BOB DYLAN 2004

1 INTRODUCTION

It was a high-profile year for Bob Dylan. The first volume of his autobiography, Chronicles, was finally published in October and an updated of Lyrics just a week later. At the end of the year an exhibition called Bob Dylan’s American Journey 1956-1966 opened at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington.

And of course the Never-Ending Tour kept rolling on. This year Dylan played 111 concerts in US and Europe.

2 2004 AT A GLANCE

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3 THE 2004 CALENDAR

25 January	Bob Dylan films a tv commercial, Angels in Venice, featuring his song *Love Sick, for the lingerie company Victoria's Secret* in Venice, Italy.
7 February	Dylan is a celebrity guest at the Art For Aids III event, in the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa, Laguna Beach, California.
28 February	Dylan starts 33-stop Spring tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Richie Hayward has now joined the band and is sharing the drumming and percussion with George Recile. During this tour several cities gets three or more shows at the same venue, among them St. Louis, Missouri, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Boston, Massachusetts.
8 March	Dylan’s guitar technician Tommy “Mad Dog” Morrongiello plays guitar on Summer Days. He returns to the stage for ten more shows this year.
16 March	At the second show in Detroit, Michigan an extra encore is played, Get Out Of Denver by Bob Seger.
17 March	Jack White from The White Stripes guests on vocal and guitar on an extra encore, his own Ball And Biscuit at the third show in Detroit, Michigan.
28 March	Dylan and the band records A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke at the Apollo Theater in New York City, New York. The second take is broadcast in the NBC TV program Apollo at 70: A Hot Night In Harlem, 19 June 2004.
29 March	The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall is released.
2 April	The show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC features the first regular concert performance of Hazel.
4 April	Richie Hayward plays his last show with Bob Dylan at the Warner Theater on in Washington, DC.
4 April	Los Angeles Times publishes an interview with Dylan by Robert Hilburn.
9 April	Unbelievable returns to the set for the first time in almost nine years at the show in The Orange Peel, Asheville, North Carolina. The last time was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 June 1995!
5 May	Bob Dylan plays guitar and sings with Willie Nelson accompanied by The Family in Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California. They perform You Win Again which is later broadcast in the TV special Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws and Angels 31 May 2004..
4 June	A short six-stop warm-up tour starts at Meadowbrook Music Arts Center Pavilion in Gilford, New Hampshire.
7 June	Backed by the Wynton Marsalis Septet Dylan performs two songs, It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2004 Spring Gala.
11 June	Dylan plays The Bonnaroo Music Festival for the first time and offers an unusual set with four covers, Samson And Delilah, Sing Me Back Home, You Win Again and Pancho And Lefty, the first two being live debuts.
18 June	The perennial tour of Europe starts in Cardiff, Wales.
20 June	Bob Dylan headlines The Fleadh, Finsbury Park, London, England, supported by Counting Crows, The Charlatans, Christy Moore, Billy Bragg, John Prine, Kathryn Williams and others. Ron Wood plats electric guitar.
23 June	Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland.
18 July	The European tour ends after 21 shows in Vilar de Mouros, Portugal.
4 August	A summer tour with Willie Nelson starts with a warm-up show in Poughkeepsie, New York. Willie Nelson is not present at this show but is the opening act for the rest of the tour.
12 August	For the first time during the tour Willie Nelson joins Dylan on stage. They perform Milk Cow Blues with Lucas Nelson on guitar.
17 August	At the show in Charleston, South Carolina. Willie Nelson again joins Dylan, this time on I Shall Be Released.
20 August	Elana Fremerman plays violin on the first two songs To Be Alone With You and I'll Be Your Baby Tonight at the show in Jackson, Tennessee.
21 August	Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson again duet on I Shall Be Released, this with Lucas Nelson on guitar and Michael Nelson on percussion.
27 August	At the show in Madison, Wisconsin Heartland is performed live for the first time, a song Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson co-wrote, recorded in October 1992 and released as a duet on Willie Nelson’s album Across The Borderline. Again with Lucas Nelson on guitar and Michael Nelson on percussion.
4 September	The US Summer tour ends after 22 shows in Kansas City, Missouri.
12 September	Drummer Kenny Buttrey dies in Nashville, Tennessee.
27 September	Bob Dylan is interviewed by David Gates from Newsweek.
29 September	Bob Dylan is interviewed by John Preston from Sunday Telegraph.
30 September	Jacques Levy dies at the age of 69.
4 October	Simon & Schuster publishes Bob Dylan's autobiographical memoir Chronicles Vol. 1 It will go on to spend nineteen weeks on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list, peaking at No 2 in January of 2005.
5 October	Bob Dylan is interviewed by Edna Gundersen in USA Today.
12 October	Simon & Schuster publishes Lyrics 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan.
19 October	The US Fall College Tour starts with a show in The Grand Ballroom at The Regency Center in San Francisco, California. The set-list included No More One More Time by Troy Seal and Dave Kirby, last played in Linz, Austria 15 June 1991.
19 November	Bob Dylan gives his first television interview in nineteen years to Ed Bradley from CBS. On the same evening, he makes an appearance in animated form on The Simpsons.
20 November	The exhibition Bob Dylan’s American Journey 1956-1966 opens at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington.
21 November	The last show of the Fall tour is played in Gordon Track and Tennis Center at the Harvard University in Allston, Massachusetts.
5 December	Parts of the Ed Bradley interview is broadcast in the CBS show 60 Minutes.

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4 RELEASES AND RECORDINGS

4.1 The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall

Columbia Legacy 512358 2, released 29 March 2004.

The 6^th volume of The Bootleg Series contains the 1964 Halloween Concert in Philharmonic Hall in New York City:

CD 1:

1. The Times They Are A-Changin'

2. Spanish Harlem Incident

3. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues

4. To Ramona

5. Who Killed Davey Moore?

6. Gates Of Eden

7. If You Gotta Go, Go Now

8. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

10. Mr. Tambourine Man

11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

CD 2:

12. Talking World War III Blues

13. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

14. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

15. Mama, You've Been On My Mind

16. Silver Dagger (trad.)

17. With God On Our Side

18. It Ain't Me Babe

19. All I Really Want To Do

For further information please refer to the corresponding session page.

4.2 Web Bob

The official Bob Dylan homepage on the Internet, www.bobdylan.com, featured the following tracks in 2004:

Down Along The Cove	2 March 2004	The Pageant, St. Louis, Missouri
It Ain't Me, Babe	7 March 2004	Vic Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	7 March 2004	Vic Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
It Ain't Me, Babe	21 March 2004	Kool Haus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hazel	2 April 2004	Warner Theater, Washington, DC
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)	2 April 2004	Warner Theater, Washington, DC
Tryin’ To Get To Heaven	4 April 2004	Warner Theater, Washington, DC
Samson And Delilah	11 June 2004	Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, Tennessee
Sing Me Back Home	11 June 2004	Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, Tennessee
Pancho & Lefty	11 June 2004	Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, Tennessee
You Win Again	11 June 2004	Bonnaroo Festival, Manchester, Tennessee

4.3 New circulating recording

A new longer tape from the BBC TV play Madhouse On Castle Street including Hang Me, Cuckoo Bird, The Ballad of The Gliding Swan and Blowin’ In The Wing appeared plus some additional dialogue.

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