5 THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

*Song*	op	ma	en	S	1	2	3	4
Absolutely Sweet Marie	1			1		1
Ain't Talkin'		5		5				5
All Along The Watchtower		85		85	16	14	22	33
Ballad Of A Thin Man		86		86	16	15	22	33
Ballad Of Hollis Brown		10		10	3	3	1	3
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'		17		17	11		1	5
Blind Willie McTell		12		12	4	2	3	3
Blowin' In The Wind			80	80	12	13	22	33
Can't Wait		6		6		3	3
Chimes Of Freedom		8		8				8
Cry A While		16		16	5	2		9
Delia		1		1				1
Desolation Row		28		28	8	5	6	9
Dignity		1		1				1
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right		14		14	4	2	3	5
Early Roman Kings		7		7				7
Every Grain Of Sand		7		7	1	2	2	2
Forgetful Heart		17		17	5	4	2	6
Girl From The North Country		11		11	1		4	6
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall		25		25	7	5	4	9
High Water (for Charlie Patton)		35		35	6	10	12	7
Highway 61 Revisited		86		86	16	15	22	33
Honest With Me		16		16	4	4	6	2
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	10	1		11		1	1	9
It Ain't Me, Babe		9		9	4	1	1	3
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue		12		12	3	2	3	4
Joey		4		4				4
John Brown		7		7	1	1	3	2
Jolene		6		6	3		3
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues	1	1		2		1	1
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat	42			42	16	11	15
The Levee's Gonna Break		25		25	6	6	5	8
Like A Rolling Stone		85	1	86	16	15	22	33
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll		13		13	3	2	5	3
Love Minus Zero/No Limit		7		7		1	3	3
Love Sick		21		21	8	3	4	6
Make You Feel My Love		14		14	2	3	3	6
Man In The Long Black Coat		14		14	3	3	3	5
Million Miles		1		1				1
Mississippi		10		10				10
My Back Pages		1		1		1
Nettie Moore		1		1				1
Not Dark Yet		5		5	4		1
Pay In Blood		1		1				1
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35			3	3	3
Rollin' And Tumblin'		26		26	2	8	10	6
Saving Grace		1		1			1
Scarlet Town		1		1				1
Shadows		1		1				1
She Belongs To Me		1		1		1
Shelter From The Storm		4		4			1	3
Shooting Star		1		1			1
Simple Twist Of Fate		37		37	10	10	15	2
Soon After Midnight		2		2				2
Spirit On The Water		20		20	6	6	5	3
Sugar Baby		13		13		5	7	1
Summer Days		34		34	10	6	12	6
Sweet Home Chicago	1			1				1
Tangled Up In Blue		86		86	16	15	22	33
Things Have Changed		83		83	13	15	22	33
This Dream Of You		6		6			5	1
This Wheel's On Fire		1		1		1
Thunder On The Mountain		86		86	16	15	22	33
To Ramona		16		16	2	3	4	7
Tryin' To Get To Heaven		16		16	5	3	6	2
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum		27		27		4	16	7
Under The Red Sky		1		1		1
Visions Of Johanna		28		28		5	12	11
Watching The River Flow	21			21		2	5	14
When The Deal Goes Down		1		1				1
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere	10			10			1	9

6 NEW BOOKS

Selections from the never-ending flood of Dylan books:

Ian Bell: Once Upon A Time. The Lives of Bob Dylan
Mainstream Publishing 2012. Hardback 590 pages. Claimed by the publisher to be the ultimate biography of Bob Dylan.

Andrea Cossu: It Ain't Me, Babe. Bob Dylan and the Performance of Authencity
Paradigm Publishers 2012. Softback 195 pages. The author looks at key performances during Bob Dylan’s career to help explain how he forged his authenticity.

David Dalton: Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan
Hyperion Books 2012. Hardback 384 pages. A biography by founding editor of Rolling Stone.

Jon Friedman: Forget About Today. Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating A Personal Revolution
Perigee Books 2012. Softback 231 pages.

Victoria Hockfield: Comparing the Movie, I'm Not There, to the Real Life Story of Bob Dylan.
2012. Softaback 121 pages. Edited from High Quality Wikipedia Articles

Brian Southall: Treasures of Bob Dylan
Carlton Books 2012. Hardback 36 pages. Another scrapbook called “Unoffocial and Unauthorized”.

Robert Sullivan: Bob Dylan. Forever Young
Life Books 2012. Hardback 96 pages. Short biography with lots of pictures.

Howard Weiner: Tangled Up In Tunes. Ballad of a Dylanhead
Pencil Hill Publishing 2012. Softback 256 pages. A road rhapsody of how 300 nightss withBob Dylan and the Grateful Dead changed the author’s life.

Robin Witting: A Crash Course on Reading Tarantula
Exploding Rooster Books 2012, Paperback, 71 pages. An easy to read, step-by step introduction.

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: I Crossed That River. Dylan's 2011 Concerts.
Two Riders, 2012. Softback, 64 pages.

7 REFERENCES & SOURCES

[1] Articles and columns in Isis 2012.

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

[3] Articles and columns in The Bridge 2012.

[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

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	Tot #				# of songs from
	songs	es	ap	70		gp	83-89	90s	00s	co
South & Central America	271	115	16	26		1	7	19	87	0
		42%	6%	10%		0%	3%	7%	32%	0%
Europe Summer Festival Tour	251	103	18	25		2	5	13	85	0
		41%	7%	10%		1%	2%	5%	34%	0%
US Summer Tour	375	153	29	38		3	7	17	128	0
		41%	8%	10%		1%	2%	5%	34%	0%
US & Canada Fall Tour	496	205	65	42		2	9	15	155	3
		41%	13%	8%		0%	2%	3%	31%	1%
2012	1393	576	128	131		8	28	64	455	3
		41%	9%	9%		1%	2%	5%	33%	0%

1. South & Central America		2. Europe Summer Festival Tour
3. US Summer Tour		4. US and Canada Fall Tour

	# of		# of
Album	songs	%	perf	%
Bob Dylan	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Freewheelin'	4	5.8%	130	9.9%
The Times They Are A-Changin'	2	2.9%	23	1.8%
Another Side	4	5.8%	34	2.6%
Bringing It All Back Home	3	4.3%	20	1.5%
Highway 61 Revisited	5	7.2%	288	22.0%
Blonde On Blonde	4	5.8%	74	5.7%
Basement Tapes	2	2.9%	11	0.8%
John Wesley Harding	2	2.9%	96	7.3%
Nashville Skyline	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Selfportrait	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
New Morning	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Greatest Hits Vol 2	1	1.4%	21	1.6%
Pat Garrett	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Planet Waves	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Blood On The Tracks	3	4.3%	127	9.7%
Desire	1	1.4%	4	0.3%
Street-Legal	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Slow Train Coming	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Saved	1	1.4%	1	0.1%
Shot Of Love	1	1.4%	7	0.5%
Infidels	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Empire Burlesque	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
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	2	2.9%	15	1.1%
Under The Red Sky	1	1.4%	1	0.1%
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	1.4%	12	0.9%
Biograph	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Good As I Been To You	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
World Gone Wrong	1	1.4%	1	0.1%
Greatest Hits Vol 3	1	1.4%	1	0.1%
MTV Unplugged	1	1.4%	7	0.5%
Time Out Of Mind	6	8.7%	63	4.8%
Love And Theft	7	10.1%	151	11.5%
Modern Times	7	10.1%	164	12.5%
Together Through Life	4	5.8%	46	3.5%
Tempest	4	5.8%	11	0.8%

op	opener	1 South & Central America
ma	main set	2 Europe Summer Festival Tour
en	encores	3 US Summer Tour
		4 US & Canada Fall Tour

	1	2	3	4	S
Number of shows	16	15	22	33	86
Number of circulating shows	15	12	10	28	65
Number of circulating & complete shows	14	12	10	28	64
Number of unique shows	16	15	22	33	86
Number of different shows	16	15	22	33	86
Number of songs	38	46	49	58	71
Number of performed songs	271	251	375	496	1393
Mean number of performed songs	16	16	17	15	16
Variation	2.2	2.7	2.9	3.9	4.4

1	Ballad Of A Thin Man	86 times
	Highway 61 Revisited	86
	Like A Rolling Stone	86
	Tangled Up In Blue	86
	Thunder On The Mountain	86
6	All Along The Watchtower	85
7	Things Have Changed	83
8	Blowin' In The Wind	80
9	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat	42
10	Simple Twist Of Fate	37

Absolutely Sweet Marie	Lyon 18 July
Delia	Las Vegas 27 October
Dignity	Grand Prairie 1 November
Million Miles	Milwaukee 8 November
My Back Pages	Montreux 8 July
Nettie Moore	Edmonton 9 October
Pay In Blood	Detroit 13 November
Saving Grace	Johnstown 29 August
Scarlet Town	Winnipeg 5 October
Shadows	Edmonton 9 October
She Belongs To Me	Berlin 2 July
Shooting Star	Port Chester 4 September
Sweet Home Chicago	Chicago 9 November
This Wheel's On Fire	Carhaix-Plouguer 22 July
Under The Red Sky	Dresden 3 July
When The Deal Goes Down	Madison 5 November