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

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5.9         Summary

5.9.1    Song statistics

Abbreviations:

es

early songs, 1961-1966

80

songs from the 80s

ap

songs from the "amnesia period", 1967-1972

90

songs from the 90s

70

songs from the middle seventies, 1973-1978

00

songs from the new millennium

gp

songs from the "gospel years", 1979-1982

co

covers

 

 

 

Tot #

 

 

 

 

# of songs from

 

 

 

 

songs

es

ap

70

gp

83-89

90s

00s

co

US Spring Tour

565

195

95

11

23

25

73

141

2

 

 

35%

17%

2%

4%

4%

13%

25%

0%

US Warm-up Tour

102

33

18

1

3

5

12

26

4

 

 

32%

18%

1%

3%

5%

12%

25%

4%

Europe Summer Tour

347

144

58

13

7

17

23

85

0

 

 

41%

17%

4%

2%

5%

7%

24%

0%

US Summer Tour

315

103

67

6

5

21

22

90

1

 

 

33%

21%

2%

2%

7%

7%

29%

0%

US Fall College Tour

466

180

69

12

9

21

35

138

1

 

 

39%

15%

3%

2%

5%

8%

30%

0%

2004

1795

655

307

43

47

89

165

480

8

 

 

36%

17%

2%

3%

5%

9%

27%

0%

 

 

5.9.2    Show Statistics - Summary

1. US Spring Tour

3. Europe Summer Tour

5 US Fall College Tour

2. US Warm-up Tour

4. US Summer Tour

 

 

 

1

2

3

4

5

å

Number of shows

33

6

21

22

29

111

Number of circulating shows

33

6

21

22

29

111

Number of circulating & complete shows

33

6

21

22

29

111

Number of unique shows[26]

33

6

21

22

29

111

Number of different shows[27]

33

6

21

22

29

111

Number of different songs[28]

82

58

73

70

79

104

Number of unique songs[29]

80

58

73

69

79

101

Number of performed songs

565

102

347

315

466

1795

Mean number of performed songs

17

17

16

14

16

16

Variation[30]

4.8

3.4

4.4

4.9

4.9

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5.9.3    Album statistics

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Freewheelin'

4

  4.5%

77

  4.4%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

4

  4.5%

69

  4.0%

Another Side

2

  2.2%

38

  2.2%

Bringing It All Back Home

6

  6.7%

110

  6.3%

Highway 61 Revisited

7

  7.9%

233

 13.4%

Blonde On Blonde

7

  7.9%

109

  6.3%

Basement Tapes

3

  3.4%

23

  1.3%

John Wesley Harding

5

  5.6%

183

 10.5%

Nashville Skyline

5

  5.6%

53

  3.0%

Selfportrait

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

New Morning

3

  3.4%

18

  1.0%

Greatest Hits Vol 2

2

  2.2%

30

  1.7%

Pat Garrett

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Planet Waves

2

  2.2%

25

  1.4%

Blood On The Tracks

2

  2.2%

13

  0.7%

Desire

1

  1.1%

2

  0.1%

Street-Legal

1

  1.1%

3

  0.2%

Slow Train Coming

1

  1.1%

12

  0.7%

Saved

1

  1.1%

14

  0.8%

Shot Of Love

1

  1.1%

21

  1.2%

Infidels

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Empire Burlesque

2

  2.2%

18

  1.0%

Knocked-Out Loaded

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Hearts Of Fire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Down In The Groove

1

  1.1%

2

  0.1%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Oh Mercy

4

  4.5%

29

  1.7%

Under The Red Sky

3

  3.4%

66

  3.8%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 3

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 2

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 3

1

  1.1%

13

  0.7%

Biograph

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Good As I Been To You

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

World Gone Wrong

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Greatest Hits Vol 3

1

  1.1%

8

  0.5%

MTV Unplugged

1

  1.1%

1

  0.1%

Time Out Of Mind

8

  9.0%

111

  6.4%

Love And Theft

11

 12.4%

459

 26.4%

 

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5.9.4    Alphabetical song list

 

op

opener

1  US Spring Tour

ma

main set

2  US Warm-up Tour

en

encores

3  Europe Summer Tour

 

 

4  US Summer Tour

 

 

5  US Fall College Tour

 

Song

 

op

ma

en

S

1

2

3

4

5

Absolutely Sweet Marie

 

1

1

 

2

 

 

 

 

2

All Along The Watchtower

 

 

 

109

109

33

5

20

22

29

Ball And Biscuit

 

 

 

1

1

1

 

 

 

 

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

 

16

 

16

4

1

4

2

5

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

AB

 

23

 

23

5

1

5

6

6

Blind Willie McTell

 

 

13

 

13

5

2

1

2

3

Blues Instrumental

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

1

Boots Of Spanish Leather

AB

 

20

 

20

5

1

6

3

5

Bye And Bye

 

 

16

 

16

6

1

1

3

5

Can't Wait

 

 

9

 

9

4

 

2

1

2

Cat's In The Well

 

1

 

38

39

30

6

1

1

1

Cold Irons Bound

 

2

33

 

35

11

2

7

7

8

Country Pie

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

Cry A While

 

 

13

 

13

8

1

4

 

 

Desolation Row

AB

 

9

 

9

1

1

3

 

4

Dignity

 

 

8

 

8

2

 

 

 

6

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

AB

 

9

11

20

4

1

8

3

4

Down Along The Cove

 

11

7

1

19

7

1

3

4

4

Drifter's Escape

 

23

2

 

25

10

1

5

4

5

Every Grain Of Sand

 

 

21

 

21

7

1

5

1

7

Floater (Too Much To Ask)

 

 

24

 

24

7

2

5

4

6

Forever Young

 

 

1

 

1

1

 

 

 

 

Forever Young

AB

 

19

3

22

1

1

7

4

9

Get Out Of Denver

 

 

 

1

1

1

 

 

 

 

Girl From The North Country

AB

 

29

 

29

12

1

5

3

8

God Knows

 

3

11

 

14

1

1

2

4

6

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

AB

 

10

1

11

2

 

3

2

4

Hazel

 

 

2

 

2

1

 

1

 

 

Heartland

 

 

7

 

7

 

 

 

7

 

High Water (For Charley Patton)

 

 

34

 

34

9

2

5

6

12

Highway 61 Revisited

 

 

82

1

83

25

5

16

17

20

Honest With Me

 

 

110

 

110

33

6

20

22

29

I Believe In You

 

 

12

 

12

7

1

2

2

 

I Don't Believe You

 

 

11

 

11

3

 

5

1

2

I Shall Be Released

 

 

9

 

9

1

1

1

5

1

I Shall Be Released

AB

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

 

 

18

 

18

5

1

4

4

4

I'll Remember You

 

 

2

 

2

 

 

 

1

1

If Dogs Run Free

 

 

11

 

11

2

 

4

3

2

If Not For You

 

 

5

1

6

2

1

2

 

1

If You See Her, Say Hello

 

 

5

 

5

1

 

2

1

1

It Ain't Me, Babe

AB

 

27

 

27

8

3

6

5

5

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

AB

 

26

 

26

13

1

5

1

6

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

AB

 

40

 

40

11

1

8

5

15

Joey

 

 

2

 

2

2

 

 

 

 

John Brown

AB

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

 

1

Just Like A Woman

 

 

19

 

19

6

2

6

2

3

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

 

10

 

10

2

 

3

 

5

Lay Lady Lay

 

 

10

 

10

2

1

1

2

4

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

 

4

1

 

5

1

 

 

1

3

Like A Rolling Stone

 

 

 

110

110

33

6

21

21

29

Lonesome Day Blues

 

 

30

 

30

8

2

5

4

11

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

AB

 

9

 

9

8

 

1

 

 

Love Minus Zero - No Limit

AB

 

4

 

4

2

 

1

 

1

Love Sick

 

 

12

 

12

3

1

2

2

4

Maggie's Farm

 

18

2

 

20

5

1

5

4

5

Make You Feel My Love

 

 

14

 

14

7

 

2

3

2

The Man In Me

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

Man In The Long Black Coat

 

 

12

1

13

7

 

3

2

1

Masters Of War

AB

 

17

 

17

3

1

4

4

5

Milk Cow Blues

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

 

Million Miles

 

 

5

 

5

2

 

 

 

3

Moonlight

 

 

16

 

16

6

1

4

1

4

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

 

 

28

 

28

12

2

5

3

6

Mr. Tambourine Man

AB

 

8

8

16

 

 

6

5

5

No More One More Time

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

 

1

Not Dark Yet

 

 

11

 

11

4

1

3

1

2

Pancho And Lefty

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

Po' Boy

AB

 

6

 

6

 

 

 

1

5

Positively 4th Street

 

 

18

 

18

5

1

2

2

8

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

 

14

3

2

19

5

 

3

5

6

Ring Them Bells

 

 

6

 

6

3

1

1

 

1

Samson And Delilah

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

Saving Grace

 

 

14

 

14

9

1

 

2

2

Seeing The Real You At Last

 

3

13

 

16

 

1

8

5

2

Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

 

 

3

 

3

2

 

 

 

1

She Belongs To Me

 

 

4

 

4

3

 

1

 

 

Shooting Star

 

 

8

 

8

5

 

2

 

1

Silvio

 

1

1

 

2

2

 

 

 

 

Sing Me Back Home

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

Standing In The Doorway

 

 

11

 

11

4

 

2

1

4

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

 

 

33

 

33

11

3

7

4

8

Sugar Baby

 

 

11

 

11

 

 

 

6

5

Summer Days

 

 

111

 

111

33

6

21

22

29

Tangled Up In Blue

AB

1

6

1

8

3

 

3

1

1

Tears Of Rage

 

 

3

 

3

2

 

1

 

 

Tell Me That It Isn't True

 

 

17

 

17

10

2

2

2

1

Things Have Changed

 

 

21

 

21

10

1

1

4

5

This Wheel's On Fire

 

 

13

 

13

2

 

4

3

4

The Times They Are A-Changin'

AB

 

16

 

16

2

 

4

4

6

To Be Alone With You

 

12

 

 

12

3

1

2

2

4

Tombstone Blues

 

4

 

 

4

4

 

 

 

 

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

 

 

13

 

13

 

 

 

8

5

Tryin' To Get To Heaven

 

 

14

 

14

2

1

1

4

6

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

 

 

88

 

88

21

4

19

17

27

Unbelievable

 

 

2

 

2

2

 

 

 

 

Under The Red Sky

 

 

13

 

13

4

1

3

2

3

Visions Of Johanna

AB

 

3

 

3

 

 

 

 

3

Watching The River Flow

 

 

20

 

20

6

2

4

5

3

The Wicked Messenger

 

12

 

 

12

6

1

4

1

 

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

 

 

7

 

7

4

1

 

 

2

 

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5.9.5    Ten most played songs in 2004

1

Summer Days

111

times

2

Honest With Me

110

 

 

Like A Rolling Stone

110

 

4

All Along The Watchtower

109

 

5

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

88

 

6

Highway 61 Revisited

83

 

7

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

40

 

8

Cat's In The Well

39

 

9

Cold Irons Bound

35

 

10

High Water (For Charley Patton)

34

 

 

5.9.6    Live debuts

 

a)      Dylan songs

 

Heartland was first played as a duet with Willie Nelson in Madison, Wisconsin 27 August.

 

b)      Covers

 

Ball And Biscuit (Jack White & Meg White)

Detroit, Michigan, 17 March

Get Out Of Denver  (Bob Seger)

Detroit, Michigan, 16 March

Milk Cow Blues (trad.)

Aberdeen, Maryland, 12 August

No More One More Time (Troy Seals-Dave Kirby)

San Francisco, California, 13 October

Pancho And Lefty (Townes van Zandt)

Manchester, Tennessee, 11 June

Samson And Delilah (trad. arr. by Rev. Gary Davis)

Manchester, Tennessee, 11 June

Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard)

Manchester, Tennessee, 11 June

You Win Again (Hank Williams)

Manchester, Tennessee, 11 June

 

5.9.7    Played only once in 2004

 

Country Pie

Richmond, Virginia, 15 August.

 

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6               NEW BOOKS

Selections from the never-ever-ending flood of new Dylan books:

Steve Butterworth: Brits & Bobs - Bob Dylan in the British Isles.

Eye 5 2003. Softback 210 pages.

Derek Barker: Isis - A Bob Dylan Anthology

Helter Skelter Publishing 2004. Pocket 352 pages. Essays

David Boucher: Dylan And Cohen - Poets of Rock and Roll
Continuum 2004. Softback 263 pages.

Glen Dundas: Tangled - A Recording History of Bob Dylan
SMA Services 2004. Softback 470 pages. An update of Tangled Up In Tapes.

Bob Dylan: Younger Than That Now - The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan
Thunder's Mouth Press 2004. Softback 294 pages.

Bob Dylan: Chronicles - Volume One
Simon & Shuster 2004. Hardback 293 pages.

Bob Dylan: Lyrics 1962-2001
Simon & Shuster 2004. Hardback 610 pages.

Andy Gill: A Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On The Tracks

Da Capo 2004. Hardcover, 246 pages.

Michael J. Gilmour: Tangled Up In The Bible - Bob Dylan & Scripture
Continuum 2004. Softback 146 pages.

Benjamin Hedin (ed.): Studio A - The Bob Dylan Reader
W. W. Norton Publishers 2004. Hardback 336 pages. Essays

Oliver Trager: Keys To The Rain - The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
Billboard Books 2004. Softback 724 pages.

Paul Williams: Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1986 * 1990 & beyond
Omnibus Press 2004. Hardback 384 pages.

Nigel Williamson: The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan
Rough Guides 2004. Paperback 380 pages.

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: Got To Run. Bob Dylan's 2003 Concerts.
Two Riders, 2004. 60 pages.
Concert listings and comments plus a lot of pictures.

 

7               REFERENCES & SOURCES

[1]    The Wicked Messenger column in Isis 2004.

[2]    Bill Pagel's excellent tour reports on his Bob Links page: http://www.boblinks.com/

[3]    Articles and columns in The Bridge 2004.

[4]    My CD-R collection.

[5]    Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: You Called And I Came. Bob Dylan's 2004 Concerts. Two Riders, 2005.

[6]    Rock Source Dylan Day by Day, http://www.rocksourcearchive.com/dylan

 

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