IT’S ALL BEEN WRITTEN IN THE BOOK - BOB DYLAN 2004
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 |
||
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% |
||
|
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 |
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% |
||
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 |
6.4 |
|
# of |
|
# of |
|
Album |
songs |
% |
perf |
% |
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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op |
opener |
1 US Spring Tour |
ma |
main set |
2 US Warm-up Tour |
en |
encores |
3 Europe Summer Tour |
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4 US Summer Tour |
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|
5 US Fall College Tour |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
|
|
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 |
[TOP]
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 |
|
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) |
|
Get Out Of |
|
Milk Cow Blues (trad.) |
|
No More One More Time (Troy Seals-Dave Kirby) |
|
Pancho And Lefty (Townes van Zandt) |
|
Samson And Delilah (trad. arr. by Rev. Gary Davis) |
|
Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard) |
|
You Win Again (Hank Williams) |
Country Pie |
[TOP]
Selections
from the never-ever-ending flood of new Dylan books:
Steve Butterworth: Brits & Bobs - Bob Dylan in the 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 |
Glen Dundas: Tangled - A Recording History
of Bob Dylan |
Bob Dylan: Younger Than That Now - The Collected Interviews with Bob
Dylan |
Bob Dylan: Chronicles - Volume One |
Bob Dylan: Lyrics 1962-2001 |
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 |
Benjamin Hedin (ed.): Studio A - The Bob Dylan Reader |
Oliver Trager: Keys To The Rain - The
Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia |
Paul Williams: Bob Dylan Performing Artist 1986 * 1990 & beyond |
Nigel Williamson: The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan |
Mike Wyvill and |
[1] The Wicked Messenger column
in Isis 2004.
[2]
[3] Articles and columns in The
Bridge 2004.
[4] My CD-R collection.
[5] Mike Wyvill
and
[6] Rock Source Dylan Day by Day, http://www.rocksourcearchive.com/dylan