6 THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

6.8 Summary

6.8.1 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
Far East & Down Under	274	86	11	51		17	4	12	93	0
		31%	4%	19%		6%	1%	4%	34%	0%
Europe Summer Tour	181	81	15	17		4	0	10	54	0
		45%	8%	9%		2%	0%	6%	30%	0%
US Summer Tour	431	169	28	50		2	6	13	163	0
		39%	6%	12%		0%	1%	3%	38%	0%
Europe Fall Tour	473	213	37	26		0	16	24	157	0
		45%	8%	5%		0%	3%	5%	33%	0%
2011	1359	549	91	144		23	26	59	467	0
		40%	7%	11%		2%	2%	4%	34%	0%

6.8.2 Show Statistics - Summary

1. Tour of Japan

2. Europe Summer Tour

3. US Summer Tour

3. US Fall Tour

	1	2	3	4	S
Number of shows	17	11	28	33	89
Number of circulating shows	16	11	19	33	79
Number of circulating & complete shows	12	11	19	33	75
Number of unique shows	17	10	28	33	88
Number of different shows	17	10	28	33	88
Number of songs	41	43	38	49	64
Number of performed songs	274	181	431	473	1359
Mean number of performed songs	16	16	15	14	15
Variation	2.5	2.6	2.5	3.4	4.2

*Song*	op	ma	en	S	1	2	3	4
All Along The Watchtower		29	50	79	7	11	28	33
Ballad Of A Thin Man		89		89	17	11	28	33
Ballad Of Hollis Brown		11		11		5	3	3
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'		41		41	5	7	27	2
Blind Willie McTell		17		17	4		6	7
Blowin' In The Wind			29	29	1	9	11	8
Boots Of Spanish Leather		2		2		1		1
Can't Wait		3		3		1		2
Cold Irons Bound		16		16	5	3	7	1
Desolation Row		32		32	8	2	6	16
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right		25		25	4	4	9	8
Every Grain Of Sand		1		1		1
Forever Young			21	21	16	2	1	2
Forgetful Heart		30		30	3	6	9	12
Girl From The North Country		5		5		1	1	3
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking	21			21	16	3	2
Gotta Serve Somebody	1			1	1
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall		31		31	9	6	3	13
High Water (for Charlie Patton)		26		26	7	2	9	8
Highway 61 Revisited		88		88	17	11	27	33
Honest With Me		27		27	6			21
I Don't Believe You		3		3	1	2
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine		1		1		1
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight		4		4	2	1		1
If You Ever Go To Houston		6		6	1		5
It Ain't Me, Babe		17		17	5	1	4	7
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue		22		22	2	4	8	8
John Brown		5		5			2	3
Jolene		10		10	5	1		4
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues		7		7	5			2
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat	50			50		3	14	33
The Levee's Gonna Break		32		32	8	3	9	12
Like A Rolling Stone		28	61	89	17	11	28	33
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll		8		8		1	3	4
Love Minus Zero/No Limit		1		1			1
Love Sick		8		8	3			5
Make You Feel My Love		5		5		1		4
The Man In Me		1		1		1
Man In The Long Black Coat		7		7				7
Mississippi		29		29			19	10
My Wife's Home Town		3		3	3
Nettie Moore		2		2				2
Not Dark Yet		7		7	1			6
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35	17			17		5	12
Rollin' And Tumblin'		7		7	6			1
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)		4		4	4
Shooting Star		2		2				2
Simple Twist Of Fate		47		47	15	6	21	5
Spirit On The Water		20		20	9	2	1	8
Sugar Baby		14		14	1		12	1
Summer Days		36		36	5	6	13	12
Tangled Up In Blue		72		72	16	9	28	19
Things Have Changed		76		76	8	10	28	30
This Wheel's On Fire		3		3	2			1
Thunder On The Mountain		82		82	10	11	28	33
'Til I Fell In Love With You		1		1		1
To Ramona		8		8		2	5	1
Tryin' To Get To Heaven		19		19	3	4	6	6
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum		24		24	15	6	3
Visions Of Johanna		10		10		2	4	4
Watching The River Flow		2		2				2
When I Paint My Masterpiece		1		1		1
When The Deal Goes Down		1		1	1
Workingman’s Blues #2		1		1				1

6.8.5 Top Ten songs 2011

1	Ballad Of A Thin Man	89	times
	Like A Rolling Stone	89
3	Highway 61 Revisited	88
4	Thunder On The Mountain	82
5	All Along The Watchtower	79
6	Things Have Changed	76
7	Tangled Up In Blue	72
8	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat	50
9	Simple Twist Of Fate	47
10	Beyond Here Lies Nothin'	41

6.8.6 Songs played only once in 2011


Every Grain Of Sand	Odense, Denmark, 27 June
Gotta Serve Somebody	Taipei, Taiwan, 3 April
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	Cork, Ireland, 16 June
Love Minus Zero/No Limit	Canandaigua, New York, 9 August
The Man In Me	Odense, Denmark, 27 June
'Til I Fell In Love With You	Milan, Italy, 22 June
When I Paint My Masterpiece	Milan, Italy, 22 June
When The Deal Goes Down	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 April
Workingman’s Blues #2	Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 20 October

6.8.7 Live debuts of Dylan songs

There were no live debuts in 2011.

6.8.8 Covers played in 2011

There were no covers played in 2011.

6.8.9 2011 vs 2010 vs 2009

78 different songs were performed in 2010 and 64 in 2011. 19 songs in 2010 were not performed in 2011, among them Just Like A Woman, Lay Lady Lay, Masters Of War, Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine), Mr. Tambourine Man, Positively 4th Street, Shelter From The Storm and Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again. Only 5 songs, Boots Of Spanish Leather, Gotta Serve Somebody, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, Mississippi, When I Paint My Masterpiece) were new compared to 2010.

	2009	2010	2011
No of shows	97	102	89
No of different songs performed	101	78	64
Dropped from previous year		28	19
New to previous year		5	5

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7 NEW BOOKS 2011

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

Tony Beck: Understanding Bob Dylan. Making Sesnseof the Songs That Changed Modern Music
Self-published 2011. Softback 272 pages.

Frank Bond: Bob Dylan Lyrics versus the Academics. The Inadequacy of the Prominent Academic Approaches in Studying Bob Dylan’s Song Lyrics
Lambert Academic Publishing 2010. Softback 112 pages. The snappy title says all about the content of this book.

Dr. A.T. Bradford: Out Of The Dark Woods - Dylan, Depression And Faith
Templehouse Publishing 2011. Softback 247 pages. Subtitled The Messages Behind The Music Of Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan: Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Sterling 2011. Hardback. Dylan’s lyrics illustrated by Jim Arnosky. This book contains drawings of more that 170 different animals! Comes with a CD with the song from Slow Train Coming.

Bob Dylan: The Asia Series
Gagosian Gallery 2011. Hardback 2011. Exhibition catalogue. Contains an interview with Bob Dylan done by John Elderfield. This item comes with four different covers.

Sean Egan: The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan
Robinson 2011. Softback 518 pages. An anthology of writings about Bob Dylan by Michael Gray, Nat Hentoff, Andy Gill, John Herdman and others.

Daniel Mark Epstein: The Ballad of Bob Dylan. A Portrait
Souvenir Press 2011. Hardback 496 pages. A personal account of four Dylan concert experiences: Washinhgton D.C. 1963, Washington Square Garden 1974, Tanglewood 1997 and Aberdeen, Maryland 2009.

Gary Golio & Marc Burckhardt: When Bob Met Woody, The Story of the Young Bob Dylan
Little, Brown 2011. Hardback 40 pages. An inspirig tale for young readers.

Clinton Heylin; Behind The Shades. The 20th Anniversary Edition
Faber & Faber Ltd 2011. Softback 902 pages. This edition is expanded with no less than six new chapters bringing the tale up to date.

Joe Ladwig & Anthony Bowman (ed): How Does It Feel. Reflections of Bob Dylan
Sailing Leaf Publishing 2011. Softback 160 pages. “A tapestry of tributes”

Teresa Ryan Manzella: How to Analyze the Music of Bob Dylan
ABDO Publishing Company 2011. Hardback 112 pages. A book in the Essential Critiques series,

Greil Marcus: Old, Weird America,.The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Picador USA 2011. Softback 296 pages. This ia an updated edition of Invible Republic.

Michael Anton Miller: Hard Rain Slow Train. Passages About Dylan
Jupiter Hollow Media 2011. Softback 256 pages. A book that pays attention to the poet in Bob Dylan.

June Skinner Sawyers: Bob Dylan New York
Roaring Forties Press 2011. Softback 133 pages. Treats Bob Dylan’s first years in New York City.

Robert Shelton: No Direction Home. The Life And Music Of Bob Dylan
Omnibus Press 2011. Hardback 360 pages. Revised & updated edition edited by Elizabeth Thompson & Patrick Humphries. In this edition much of the original text by Robert Shelton is reinstated. A “direcor’s cut” if you will.

Nick Smart & Nina Goss: Dylan at Play
Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011. Hardback 190 pages. A selection of writings on Bob Dylan

Howard Sounes: Down The Highway, Down The Highway
Doubleday 2011. Softback 564 pages. Updated with a new chapter covering the ten years since the book's first publication.

A.J. Weberman: The Devil and Bob Dylan
Self-published 2011. Softback 496 pages. This book starts with the sentence “In 1961 Bob Dylan struck a bargain with Satan”. This is the ultimate crackpot Dylan book!

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: Movin’ Along. Dylan's 2010 Concerts.
Two Riders, 2011. Softback, 64 pages.

David Yaffe: Bob Dylan. Like Complete Unknown
Yale University Press 2011. Hardback 170 pages. A book in the Icons of America series. Essays on the voice of Bob Dylan and his songwiting metids among others.

“Monk” from The Asia Series

8 REFERENCES & SOURCES

[1] Articles and columns in Isis 2011.

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

[3] Articles and columns in The Bridge 2011.

[4] My CD-R collection.

[5] Rock Source Dylan Day by Day, www.rocksourcearchive.com/dylan

[6] dylanstubs.com, The Bob Dylan Ticket Stubs & Concert Poster Archive, http://dylanstubs.com/hello.htm

[7] Music: Bob Dylan, Jack White and Norah Jones Record Unheard Hank Williams Songs. Rolling Stone 4 August 4, 2011