I SHALL BE RELEASED - BOB DYLAN 2005

 

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5.8          Summary

5.8.1       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

548

182

126

24

12

22

41

126

15

 

 

33%

22%

4%

2%

4%

11%

22%

2%

US Summer Tour

424

192

65

13

1

22

37

93

1

 

 

45%

15%

3%

0%

5%

9%

21%

0%

Canada Summer Tour

176

66

52

2

3

10

11

32

0

 

 

37%

30%

1%

1%

6%

6%

18%

0%

Europe Fall Tour

504

230

123

15

5

17

28

79

7

 

 

46%

24%

3%

1%

3%

6%

16%

1%

2005

1652

670

366

54

21

71

117

330

23

 

 

41%

22%

3%

1%

4%

7%

20%

1%

 

 

5.8.2       Show Statistics - Summary

1. US Spring Tour                              3. Canada Summer Tour

2. US Summer Tour             4. Europe Fall Tour

 

 

1

2

3

4

S

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of shows

39

31

11

31

112

Number of circulating shows

39

31

11

31

112

Number of circulating & complete shows

39

31

11

31

112

Number of unique shows[1]

39

30

11

31

111

Number of different shows[2]

39

30

11

31

111

Number of different songs[3]

94

80

60

87

110

Number of unique songs[4]

94

80

60

87

110

Number of performed songs

548

424

176

504

1652

Mean number of performed songs

17

13

16

16

14

Variation[5]

6.7

5.8

3.8

5.4

7.5

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5.8.3       Album statistics

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Freewheelin'

4

  4.0%

92

  5.8%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

5

  5.0%

58

  3.6%

Another Side

5

  5.0%

45

  2.8%

Bringing It All Back Home

6

  6.0%

120

  7.5%

Highway 61 Revisited

8

  8.0%

196

 12.3%

Blonde On Blonde

8

  8.0%

121

  7.6%

Basement Tapes

5

  5.0%

29

  1.8%

John Wesley Harding

6

  6.0%

197

 12.3%

Nashville Skyline

4

  4.0%

86

  5.4%

Selfportrait

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

New Morning

3

  3.0%

21

  1.3%

Greatest Hits Vol 2

3

  3.0%

34

  2.1%

Pat Garrett

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Planet Waves

3

  3.0%

19

  1.2%

Blood On The Tracks

4

  4.0%

23

  1.4%

Desire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Street-Legal

1

  1.0%

12

  0.8%

Slow Train Coming

1

  1.0%

6

  0.4%

Saved

1

  1.0%

2

  0.1%

Shot Of Love

2

  2.0%

13

  0.8%

Infidels

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Empire Burlesque

2

  2.0%

9

  0.6%

Knocked-Out Loaded

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Hearts Of Fire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Down In The Groove

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Oh Mercy

3

  3.0%

30

  1.9%

Under The Red Sky

3

  3.0%

40

  2.5%

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

  1.0%

15

  0.9%

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

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

MTV Unplugged

1

  1.0%

17

  1.1%

Time Out Of Mind

9

  9.0%

94

  5.9%

Love And Theft

12

 12.0%

320

 20.0%

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5.8.4       Alphabetical song list

 

op

opener

1  US Spring Tour

ma

main set

2  US Summer Tour

en

encores

3  Canada & US North West Summer Tour

 

 

4  Europe Fall Tour

 

Song

 

op

ma

en

S

1

2

3

4

A-11

 

 

1

4

5

5

 

 

 

Absolutely Sweet Marie

 

 

8

 

8

5

2

1

 

All Along The Watchtower

 

 

1

92

93

36

18

8

31

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

 

14

 

14

4

4

2

4

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

AB

 

19

 

19

10

5

 

4

Blind Willie McTell

 

 

14

1

15

4

4

3

4

Blue Monday

 

 

 

1

1

 

 

 

1

Boots Of Spanish Leather

AB

 

10

 

10

2

2

2

4

Bye And Bye

 

 

16

 

16

8

6

1

1

Can't Wait

 

 

5

 

5

2

1

1

1

Cat's In The Well

 

1

7

 

8

6

1

 

1

Chimes Of Freedom

AB

 

10

 

10

3

4

 

3

Cold Irons Bound

 

 

35

 

35

10

11

4

10

Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

Cry A While

 

 

20

 

20

4

9

2

5

Desolation Row

AB

 

11

 

11

5

1

1

4

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

AB

 

2

30

32

6

12

3

11

Down Along The Cove

 

 

35

 

35

15

3

2

15

Drifter's Escape

 

29

3

 

32

13

13

 

6

Every Grain Of Sand

 

 

10

1

11

4

1

1

5

Floater (Too Much To Ask)

 

 

17

 

17

6

5

2

4

Folsom Prison Blues

 

1

 

 

1

1

 

 

 

Forever Young

AB

 

7

4

11

6

3

 

2

Girl From The North Country

AB

 

25

1

26

5

9

3

9

God Knows

 

 

17

 

17

3

6

3

5

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

AB

 

13

1

14

4

2

2

6

Hazel

 

 

4

 

4

3

1

 

 

High Water (For Charley Patton)

 

 

33

 

33

11

11

2

9

Highway 61 Revisited

 

 

96

 

96

29

29

8

30

Honest With Me

 

 

47

 

47

22

10

6

9

I Believe In You

 

 

6

 

6

4

 

2

 

I Don't Believe You

 

 

11

 

11

4

1

 

6

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

AB

 

4

 

4

2

1

 

1

I Shall Be Released

 

 

2

2

4

2

1

1

 

I Want You

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

If Dogs Run Free

 

 

7

 

7

5

 

 

2

If You See Her, Say Hello

 

 

8

 

8

4

2

1

1

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

 

 

31

 

31

6

4

9

12

I'll Remember You

 

 

7

 

7

4

2

1

 

It Ain't Me, Babe

AB

 

6

4

10

2

4

2

2

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

 

 

 

1

1

1

 

 

 

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

AB

 

3

1

4

4

 

 

 

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

AB

 

32

 

32

10

8

1

13

John Brown

AB

 

17

 

17

5

5

2

5

Just Like A Woman

 

 

26

 

26

6

10

3

7

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

 

5

3

8

4

2

 

2

Lay Lady Lay

 

 

30

 

30

4

2

11

13

Lenny Bruce

 

 

2

 

2

2

 

 

 

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

 

 

1

 

1

1

 

 

 

Like A Rolling Stone

 

 

5

46

51

9

16

5

21

London Calling

 

 

1

1

2

 

 

 

2

Lonesome Day Blues

 

 

18

 

18

6

7

1

4

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

AB

 

5

 

5

2

 

 

3

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

AB

 

15

 

15

3

7

 

5

Love Sick

 

 

10

2

12

4

5

1

2

Maggie's Farm

 

43

3

 

46

7

5

11

23

Make You Feel My Love

 

 

11

 

11

4

5

 

2

The Man In Me

 

 

4

 

4

3

 

 

1

Man In The Long Black Coat

 

 

10

 

10

4

1

1

4

Masters Of War

AB

 

13

7

20

7

6

2

5

Million Dollar Bash

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

Million Miles

 

 

5

 

5

 

3

 

2

Mississippi

 

 

4

5

9

7

1

 

1

Moonlight

 

 

13

 

13

7

2

2

2

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

 

 

26

 

26

4

9

4

9

Mr. Tambourine Man

AB

 

14

1

15

7

2

1

5

My Back Pages

AB

 

4

 

4

 

2

1

1

Never Gonna Be The Same Again

 

 

2

 

2

 

 

 

2

New Morning

 

 

10

 

10

 

3

3

4

Not Dark Yet

 

 

3

 

3

1

1

1

 

One Too Many Mornings

AB

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

Po' Boy

 

 

 

1

1

1

 

 

 

Positively 4th Street

 

 

20

 

20

3

7

2

8

Queen Jane Approximately

 

 

5

 

5

2

1

1

1

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

 

 

 

2

2

2

 

 

 

Ring Them Bells

 

 

3

 

3

2

 

 

1

Rumble

 

4

 

 

4

 

 

 

4

Saving Grace

 

 

2

 

2

2

 

 

 

Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

 

 

12

 

12

3

4

 

5

She Belongs To Me

 

 

8

 

8

2

4

 

2

Shelter From The Storm

 

 

9

 

9

3

2

1

3

Shooting Star

 

 

16

1

17

5

9

2

1

Simple Twist Of Fate

 

 

2

 

2

 

 

 

2

Sing Me Back Home

 

 

1

8

9

9

 

 

 

Standing In The Doorway

 

 

6

 

6

4

1

 

1

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

 

 

45

 

45

11

13

3

18

Sugar Baby

 

 

6

 

6

3

 

 

3

Summer Days

 

 

84

 

84

23

26

11

24

Tangled Up In Blue

AB

 

3

1

4

1

1

 

2

Tears Of Rage

 

 

2

 

2

 

1

 

1

Tell Me That It Isn't True

 

 

12

 

12

2

1

1

8

Things Have Changed

 

 

7

1

8

4

3

 

1

This Wheel's On Fire

 

 

12

 

12

8

3

 

1

'Til I Fell In Love With You

 

 

4

 

4

 

 

 

4

The Times They Are A-Changin'

AB

 

20

3

23

4

7

2

10

To Be Alone With You

 

22

 

 

22

11

8

 

3

To Ramona

AB

 

10

 

10

2

4

1

3

Tombstone Blues

 

10

 

 

10

5

5

 

 

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

AB

 

1

 

1

1

 

 

 

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

 

 

22

 

22

2

3

9

8

Tough Mama

 

 

4

 

4

4

 

 

 

Tryin' To Get To Heaven

 

 

13

 

13

4

6

2

1

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

 

 

56

 

56

24

13

5

14

Under The Red Sky

 

 

15

 

15

6

3

2

4

Visions Of Johanna

AB

 

12

 

12

1

4

1

6

Waiting For You

 

 

2

 

2

 

 

 

2

Watching The River Flow

 

 

29

 

29

8

3

7

11

The Wicked Messenger

 

2

 

 

2

2

 

 

 

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

 

 

13

 

13

7

1

1

4

You Win Again

 

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

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5.8.5       Ten most played songs in 2005

1

Highway 61 Revisited

96

times

2

All Along The Watchtower

93

 

3

Summer Days

84

 

4

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

56

 

5

Like A Rolling Stone

51

 

6

Honest With Me

47

 

7

Maggie's Farm

46

 

8

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

45

 

9

Cold Irons Bound

35

 

 

Down Along The Cove

35

 

 

 

5.8.6       Covers played in 2005

 

A-11 (Hank Cochran)

Debut in Portland, Oregon, 11 March, then several times during the Spring tour.

Blue Monday (Dave Bartholomew & Fats Domino)

Debut in London, England, 23 November

Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)

Only once in Reno, Nevada, 18 March

London Calling (Joe Strummer/Mick Jones)

Debut in London, England, 21 November

Rumble (Link Wray)

Debut in London, England, 20 November

Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard)

Several times during the Spring tour.

You Win Again (Hank Williams)

Only once in Fort Worth, Texas, 4 July

 

5.8.7       Live debuts of Dylan songs

 

Million Dollar Bash

London, England, 21 November

Waiting For You

London, England, 21 November

 

 

5.8.8       Played only once in 2005

 

Blue Monday

London, England, 23 November

Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)

Karlstad, Sweden, 20 October

Folsom Prison Blues

Reno, Nevada, 18 March

I Want You

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 20 July

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

Boston, Massachusetts, 17 April

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Boston, Massachusetts, 17 April

Million Dollar Bash

London, England, 21 November

One Too Many Mornings

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 21 July

Po' Boy

New York City, New York, 30 April

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

Boston, Massachusetts, 15 April

You Win Again

Fort Worth, Texas, 4 July

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6                NEW BOOKS

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

Dylan - Visions, Portraits & Back Pages
Dorley Kindersley 2005. Hardback 287 pages. A Mojo Anthology with foreword by Bono.

The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
S
imon & Schuster 2005, 64 pages. A companion volume to the Martin Scorsese picture No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.

Douglas R. Gilbert: Bob Dylan Unscripted
Tango Latin 2005. Booklet 32 pages. Contains photographs by Douglas R. Gilbert.

Greil Marcus: Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan At The Crossroads
Faber & Faber 2005. Hardback 284 pages. The book places the song in the mid 60s context and t’stimeless influence on current and future culture.

Stephen Scobie: Alias Bob Dyaln Revisited
Red Deer Press 2004, Softback 359 pages.

Sam Shepard: The Rolling Thunder Lohbook
DaCapo Press 2004.Paperback 224 pages. Revised edition with new forewords by Sam Shepard and T-bone Burnett and some new photographs.

Robin Witting: Tarantula: The Falcon’s Mouthbook
Exploding Rooster Books 2005. 74 pages.

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: You Called And I Came. Bob Dylan's 2004 Concerts.
Two Riders, 2005. 60 pages. Concert listings and comments plus a lot of pictures.

 

7                REFERENCES & SOURCES

[1]   The Wicked Messenger column in Isis 2005.

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

[3]   Articles and columns in The Bridge 2005.

[4]   My CD-R collection.

[5]   Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: Over There and Back. Bob Dylan's 2005 Concerts. Two Riders, 2006.

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

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[1] a show is unique if no other show has the same songs in the same order

[2] a show is different from another show if the set of songs are different, regardless of order.

[3] electric and acoustic versions are counted as different songs.

[4] a song is counted as unique regardless of how it is performed.

[5] variation is computed as the ratio between number of different songs and mean number of performed songs.