The Lights of Autumn tour is full of surprises as Bob Dylan continually changes his setlist, performing rarities from his greatest albums.
The show in Bremen, Germany, featured two Time Out of Mind songs for the first time this leg of the tour. Love Sick has been a staple of Dylan’s setlist ever since the Grammy-winning Time Out of Mind album released in 1997, but Million Miles has rarely been performed. Dylan would include it in his setlist for the first time since 2014 last night (October 25), as part of a 17-song set. Also featured were the likes of It Ain’t Me Babe, Under the Red Sky, and selections from his most recent studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways.
A full setlist for the show at the ÖVB Arena can be found below.
- Watching the River Flow
- Love Sick
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
- Crossing the Rubicon
- I Can Tell (Bo Diddley cover)
- Black Rider
- Tangled Up in Blue
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Girl from the North Country
- Early Roman Kings
- Soon After Midnight
- Million Miles (first time live since 2014)
- Under the Red Sky
- I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
- Goodbye Jimmy Reed
- I Shall Be Released
Dylan had not performed Million Miles since a show in Greece on June 23, 2014. The song has rarely been featured in his live shows, with just 77 performances including last night’s surprise inclusion. With both Love Sick and Tryin’ to Get to Heaven too, it means Dylan has performed three songs from Time Out of Mind during his show at the ÖVB Arena.
Dylan has been changing his setlist slightly from show to show, with the likes of Blind Willie McTell, Tangled Up in Blue, Girl From the North Country, and Spirit on the Water debuting this year. Dylan will play further dates in Belgium (which Cult Following will be covering), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (also covered by Cult Following).
Fans would have to cast their mind back a little for the last rendition of Girl from the North Country, a classic from Dylan’s discography. The song’s performance tonight is the first since Dylan performed at The Anthem in Washington D.C. back in December 2019. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan cut would feature as a Johnny Cash collaboration on Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album in 1969. Dylan has performed the song 590 times since 1963.
Every Grain of Sand will be a familiar inclusion for those who have caught Dylan’s recent Rough and Rowdy Ways tour and this current Lights of Autumn run. Dylan has performed the song 291 times over the last five years, with 39 of those performances from the 2026 tour.
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