Stay With Me – Bob Dylan 2014

 

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5     THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES. 1

5.8      Summary. 1

5.8.1      Song statistics. 1

5.8.2      Show statistics. 1

5.8.3      Album statistics. 3

5.8.4      Alphabetical song list 4

5.8.5      Top Ten songs. 5

5.8.6      Songs played only once. 5

5.8.7      Live debut of a Dylan song. 5

5.8.8      Cover played. 5

6      NEW BOOKS. 6

7      REFERENCES & SOURCES. 7

 

5                                THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

 

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 current 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

Tour Of Japan

361

38

19

38

0

17

19

230

0

 

 

11%

5%

11%

0%

5%

5%

64%

0%

Europe Summer Tour

381

73

23

36

0

8

17

224

0

 

 

19%

6%

9%

0%

2%

4%

59%

0%

Tour Down Under

361

40

19

37

0

1

20

244

0

 

 

11%

5%

10%

0%

0%

6%

68%

0%

US Fall Tour

623

62

6

66

0

27

33

402

27

 

 

10%

1%

11%

0%

4%

5%

64%

4%

2014

1726

213

67

177

0

53

89

1100

27

 

 

12%

4%

10%

0%

3%

      5%

64%

2%

 

5.8.2                       Show statistics

1. Tour of Japan

2. Europe Summer Tour

3. Tour Down Under

4. US Fall Tour

 

 

1

2

3

4

S

Number of shows

19

21

19

33

92

Number of circulating shows

19

18

16

27

80

Number of circulating & complete shows

19

18

16

27

80

Number of unique shows

7

9

3

3

18

Number of different shows

4

9

3

3

17

Number of songs

22

41

27

20

43

Number of performed songs

361

381

361

623

1726

Mean number of performed songs

19

18

19

18

18

Variation

1.2

2.3

1.4

1.1

2.3

 

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5.8.3                       Album statistics

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

perf

Bob Dylan

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Freewheelin'

4

 10.3%

101

  6.6%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Another Side

1

  2.6%

5

  0.3%

Bringing It All Back Home

1

  2.6%

88

  5.8%

Highway 61 Revisited

3

  7.7%

16

  1.1%

Blonde On Blonde

3

  7.7%

3

  0.2%

Basement Tapes

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

John Wesley Harding

1

  2.6%

65

  4.3%

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

  2.6%

2

  0.1%

Pat Garrett

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Planet Waves

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Blood On The Tracks

3

  7.7%

177

 11.6%

Desire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Street-Legal

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Slow Train Coming

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Saved

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Shot Of Love

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

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

1

  2.6%

24

  1.6%

Under The Red Sky

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

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

  2.6%

2

  0.1%

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

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Time Out Of Mind

3

  7.7%

89

  5.8%

Love And Theft

5

 12.8%

111

  7.3%

Modern Times

4

 10.3%

157

 10.3%

Together Through Life

2

  5.1%

171

 11.2%

Tempest

6

 15.4%

512

 33.6%

 

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5.8.4                       Alphabetical song list

 

op

opener

1  Tour of Japan

ma

main set

2  Europe Summer Tour

en

encore

3  Tour Down Under

 

 

4  US Fall Tour

 

Song

op

ma

en

S

1

2

3

4

All Along The Watchtower

 

 

65

65

19

21

19

6

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

5

1

6

 

5

1

 

Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

 

88

 

88

19

17

19

33

Blind Willie McTell

 

2

 

2

1

1

 

 

Blowin' In The Wind

 

 

84

84

19

17

19

29

Cry A While

 

6

 

6

 

5

1

 

Desolation Row

 

6

 

6

 

6

 

 

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

 

4

 

4

 

4

 

 

Duquesne Whistle

 

87

 

87

19

16

19

33

Early Roman Kings

 

85

 

85

19

15

18

33

Forgetful Heart

 

83

 

83

17

15

18

33

Girl From The North Country

 

7

 

7

 

6

1

 

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

 

6

 

6

 

6

 

 

High Water (For Charley Patton)

 

86

 

86

19

15

19

33

Huck's Tune

 

6

 

6

5

1

 

 

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

4

 

4

 

4

 

 

The Levee's Gonna Break

 

6

 

6

 

6

 

 

Lonesome Day Blues

 

6

 

6

 

5

1

 

Long And Wasted Years

 

85

 

85

19

15

18

33

Love Sick

 

86

 

86

19

15

19

33

Million Miles

 

2

 

2

 

2

 

 

Most Likely You Go Your Way

1

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

Pay In Blood

 

86

 

86

19

15

19

33

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

1

 

 

1

 

1

 

 

Scarlet Town

 

84

 

84

19

14

18

33

She Belongs To Me

 

88

 

88

19

17

19

33

Shelter From The Storm

 

6

 

6

 

6

 

 

Simple Twist Of Fate

 

85

 

85

19

15

18

33

Soon After Midnight

 

85

 

85

19

15

18

33

Spirit On The Water

 

84

 

84

19

14

18

33

Stay With Me

 

 

27

27

 

 

 

27

Summer Days

 

7

 

7

 

7

 

 

Tangled Up In Blue

 

86

 

86

19

15

19

33

Things Have Changed

88

 

 

88

19

17

19

33

Thunder On The Mountain

 

6

1

7

 

6

1

 

To Ramona

 

5

 

5

 

5

 

 

Tryin' To Get To Heaven

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

 

6

 

6

 

5

1

 

Visions Of Johanna

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 

Waiting For You

 

82

 

82

16

14

19

33

Watching The River Flow

2

 

 

2

 

2

 

 

What Good Am I?

 

24

 

24

16

7

1

 

Workingman’s Blues #2

 

60

 

60

2

7

18

33

 

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5.8.5                       Top Ten songs

 

1.

Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

88

times

 

She Belongs To Me

88

 

 

Things Have Changed

88

 

4.

Duquesne Whistle

87

 

5.

High Water (For Charley Patton)

86

 

 

Love Sick

86

 

 

Pay In Blood

86

 

 

Tangled Up In Blue

86

 

9

Early Roman Kings

85

 

 

Long And Wasted Years

85

 

 

Simple Twist Of Fate

85

 

 

Soon After Midnight

85

 

 

 

5.8.6                       Songs played only once

 

Most Likely You Go Your Way

Stavern, Norway 11 July

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

Slupsk, Poland 5 July

Tryin' To Get To Heaven

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 27 August

Visions Of Johanna

Athens, Greece 23 June

5.8.7                       Live debut of a Dylan song

Huck’s Tune

Tokyo, Japan 4 April

5.8.8                       Cover played

 

Stay With Me

Los Angeles, California 26 October

 

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6                                NEW BOOKS

Selections from the never-ending flood of Dylan books:

Bob Batchelor: Bob Dylan. A Biography
Greenwood Press 2014. Hardback, 156 pages. The shortest biography so far! No illustrations and 30 pages notes, discography, wensites etc.

Derek Barker: As The Island Slowly Sank. Bob Dylan & the Isle of Wight Fesrivals
Isis Publication 2014. Softback 80 pages.

Donald Brown: Bob Dylan. American Troubadour
Rowman & Littlefield 2014. Hardback, 245 pages. Published in the Tempo series with titles that explores rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history.

Jakob Brønnum: Sange ved himlens port. Bob Dylans bibliske inspirationskilder.
(Songs at Heaven’s Door. Bob Dylan’s  Biblical Sources of Inspiration.)
Alfa 2014,
Softback 380 pages. A tour de force through Dylan’s biblical universe by the Danish theologician and poet. Let’s hope this beautiful book will be translated to English soon. It deserves a wide audience.

Bob Dylan: The Lyrics. Since 1962
Simon & Shuster. Hardback
61 pages. A comprehensive, definitive collection of lyrics complete with expert annotations and introduction by Christopher Ricks.

Sid Griffin: Million Dollar Bash. Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Basement Tapes
Jawbone 2014.
Softback 326 pages. The second revised and updated edition.

Davd Kinney: The Dylanologists. Adventures on the land of Bob
Simon & Schuster 2014, Hardback, 241 pages.

Victor Maymudes: Another Side of Bob Dylan. A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks.
St. Martin's Press 2014. Hardback, 288 pages. Cowritten and edited by is son  Jacob Maymudes. Transcriptions of cassette tapes with Victor talking about his time with Bob Dylan.

Dennis McDougal: Dylan. The Biography
Wiley Publishing 2014. Hardback 554 pages. Promoted as “the ultimate biography of the musical icon” it is the most inaccurate and horrible book about Bob Dylan ever.

Tom Willems: Bob Dylan in the Netherlands 1965-1978
America Star Books 2014. Softback 212 pages.

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: Roll On ... Dylan's 2013 Concerts.
Two Riders, 2014. Softback, 65 pages.


 

              

 

                       

 

7                                REFERENCES & SOURCES

 

1.     Articles and columns in Isis 2014.

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

3.     Articles and columns in The Bridge 2014.

4.     My CD-R collection.

5.     Bobdylan.com: The Basement Tapes Track-by-Track

6.     The Bridge Interview: Sid Griffin by Terry Kelly. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp6-18.

7.     Subterranean Out-Takes Revisted by J Lawrence. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp19-28.

8.     Country Bob Dylan Plays The Orpheum by David Pichaske. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 29-43.

9.     “Say Hello” by Todd Harvey. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 44-48.

10.  Changed Your Life by Peter Robinson. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 49-62.

11.  “This Wheel’s On Fire by Eric Wolfson. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp  63-68.

12.  Nothing New Under The Sun. Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes Complete by Roy Kelly. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 69-72.

13.  Reels Unflecked: The Basement Tapes Complete by Gavin Selerie. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 73-87.

14.  The Basement Tapes Complete by Neil Corcoran. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 88-90.

15.  Bobby’s In The Basement by Drek Barker. Isis #177, pp 22-29,

 

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