A series of Spring shows from Bob Dylan will see the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour enter its fifth year.
Dylan has performed most of the songs from his most recent studio album, released in 2020, across the world. The tour of the US this Spring will likely include all but Murder Most Foul, the sixteen-minute epic which closed out the Rough and Rowdy Ways album. Fans may already be speculating what Dylan will include on the tour, with the likes of All Along the Watchtower, Desolation Row, and It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, all featuring on the tour previously. Dylan’s last Rough and Rowdy Ways date was at the 3Arena in Dublin, on November 25, 2025.
The show had a minor change to the setlist, with a tribute to Shane MacGowan at the end of the show on what was the final date of the European leg of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. No dates for Europe have been announced for 2026, but an announcement may be made in future, as was the case for the 2025 leg. A full setlist for the Dublin show Dylan performed last year can be found below.
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- I Contain Multitudes
- False Prophet
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Black Rider
- My Own Version of You
- To Be Alone With You
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Desolation Row
- Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
- Watching the River Flow
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
- Mother of Muses
- Goodbye Jimmy Reed
- Every Grain of Sand
- A Rainy Night in Soho (The Pogues cover)
Dylan does not tend to change up the setlist for the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. He performed a mostly unchanged setlist on the European leg of the tour, though he massively changed up his setlist when performing on the Outlaw Music Festival tour with Willie Nelson. The likes of Masters of War, Mr. Tambourine Man, and Positively 4th Street were featured, some for the first time in over a decade.
The veteran songwriter has played several of his biggest and best songs on this tour, with some being performed for the first time in over a decade.
Masters of War featured as the first song of the night, replacing the equally rare Positively 4th Street, a song Dylan had only performed five times in fifteen years before its return to the setlist. Positively 4th Street also featured in the setlist. A full setlist from the Darien Center show from last year can be found below.
- Masters of War
- I Can Tell (Bo Diddley cover)
- Forgetful Heart
- Axe and the Wind (George Butler cover)
- To Ramona
- Early Roman Kings
- Under the Red Sky
- I’ll Make It All Up to You (Charlie Rich cover)
- All Along the Watchtower
- ‘Til I Fell in Love With You
- Desolation Row
- Love Sick
- Share Your Love With Me (Bobby Bland cover)
- Positively 4th Street
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Blind Willie McTell
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
