Bob Dylan’s ongoing Spring 2026 tour has featured some of his very best songs and two cover tracks.
The setlist, which has remained unchanged for much of the tour, had the veteran songwriter, 84, perform the likes of All Along the Watchtower and I Contain Multitudes. Dylan performed at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last night (April 18). Dylan had been touring the Rough and Rowdy Ways album, which he released in 2020, at the start of the tour, but changed the tour to the Spring 2026 shows. Shows across North America are scheduled for the rest of spring and summer.
A full setlist for Dylan’s show at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium can be found below.
- To Be Alone With You
- Man in the Long Black Coat
- All Along the Watchtower
- I Contain Multitudes
- False Prophet
- Black Rider
- Love Sick
- Goodbye Jimmy Reed
- I Can Tell (Bo Diddley cover)
- I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
- Crossing the Rubicon
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Forgetful Heart
- Soon After Midnight
- Nervous Breakdown (Eddie Cochran cover)
- Every Grain of Sand
Dylan opted not to join the Outlaw Music Festival line-up this year, instead choosing to perform at a series of smaller venues across North America. The change has been noted by Dylan’s fans, with attendees of the March and early April dates so far suggesting the performances were a lot stronger in an intimate environment.
Dylan performed at larger arenas on his European tour late last year, but it appears the smaller venues he is performing at in the United States have bolstered his show. Fans took to the r/BobDylan subreddit to share their thoughts on the change-up of venue size.
One attendee of the Grand Rapids show on April 2 suggested Dylan suited the smaller venues far more than the large-scale production found elsewhere.
A fan writing about the show the day after the performance hailed it as one of the very best from Dylan. They wrote: “Unreal show last night, putting on the Ritz interpolation was not on my Bob bingo card and vocals that sounded almost better than the recordings?
“Audience even got a lil hello from Bob? Amazing. Saw him last year in an amphitheatre on the Outlaw Tour and I have to say this show was mountains better. Strongly recommend going to a smaller venue show, he looked like he was having lots of fun and it was one of the best concerts of my life. I was in the mezzanine, did anyone on the floor have a better view?”
One listener agreed that the smaller shows were much better than the Outlaw Music Festival tour. They wrote: “I’m very glad he opted out of Outlaw and is doing smaller venue concerts. It’s a much better setting.”
