FOREVER YOUNG - BOB DYLAN 2011

                           

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6     THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES. 1

6.8      Summary. 1

6.8.1      Song statistics. 1

6.8.2      Show Statistics - Summary. 1

6.8.3      Album statistics. 3

6.8.4      Alphabetical song list 4

6.8.5      Top Ten songs 2011. 5

6.8.6      Songs played only once in 2011. 5

6.8.7      Live debuts of Dylan songs. 5

6.8.8      Covers played in 2011. 5

6.8.9      2011 vs 2010 vs 2009. 6

7      NEW BOOKS 2011. 6

8      REFERENCES & SOURCES. 8

 

 

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


6.8.3               Album statistics

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Freewheelin'

4

  6.3%

90

  7.0%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

3

  4.8%

21

  1.6%

Another Side

3

  4.8%

28

  2.2%

Bringing It All Back Home

2

  3.2%

23

  1.8%

Highway 61 Revisited

5

  7.9%

305

 23.8%

Blonde On Blonde

3

  4.8%

77

  6.0%

Basement Tapes

1

  1.6%

3

  0.2%

John Wesley Harding

3

  4.8%

84

  6.5%

Nashville Skyline

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Selfportrait

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

New Morning

1

  1.6%

1

  0.1%

Greatest Hits Vol 2

2

  3.2%

3

  0.2%

Pat Garrett

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Planet Waves

1

  1.6%

21

  1.6%

Blood On The Tracks

2

  3.2%

119

  9.3%

Desire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Street-Legal

1

  1.6%

4

  0.3%

Slow Train Coming

2

  3.2%

22

  1.7%

Saved

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Shot Of Love

1

  1.6%

1

  0.1%

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

  3.2%

9

  0.7%

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

  1.6%

17

  1.3%

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

  1.6%

5

  0.4%

Time Out Of Mind

7

 11.1%

59

  4.6%

Love And Theft

6

  9.5%

156

 12.2%

Modern Times

7

 11.1%

145

 11.3%

Together Through Life

5

  7.9%

90

  7.0%

 

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6.8.4               Alphabetical song list

 

op

opener

1  Tour of Japan

ma

main set

2  Europe Summer Tour

en

encores

3  US Summer Tour

 

 

4  US Fall Tour

 

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

 

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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

 

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