The rarities keep coming on Bob Dylan‘s Lights of Autumn tour, though the veteran songwriter has dropped one Love and Theft rarity.
Dylan has been performing across Europe and will later head to the United Kingdom to wrap up the Lights of Autumn tour. During this tour, he’s performed the likes of Girl from the North Country, Tangled Up in Blue, and Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood). But Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft, his Grammy-winning album from 1997 and the 2001 follow-up, have dominated his setlist as of late. Dylan performed a show at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany today (November 15), and offered up an 18-song set that featured I Shall Be Released, along with selections from Tempest and Rough and Rowdy Ways.
A full setlist for Dylan’s Olympiahalle show can be found below.
- Watching the River Flow
- Love Sick
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
- High Water (For Charley Patton)
- I Can Tell (Bo Diddley cover)
- Black Rider
- Tangled Up in Blue
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Not Dark Yet
- I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye (Jerry Lee Lewis cover)
- Early Roman Kings
- Soon After Midnight
- Million Miles
- Under the Red Sky
- Sugar Baby
- Goodbye Jimmy Reed
- I Shall Be Released
During his last show in Austria, Dylan added Honest With Me to his setlist for the first time since 2019. The Time Out of Mind song had been frequently played by the veteran performer during his pre-Rough and Rowdy Ways shows but was dropped entirely after the album’s release. It made its return to the setlist for the first time since 2019 during a show at the Salzburgarena in Austria on November 14.
It is unclear what further additions Dylan may make to the setlist as he continues the Lights of Autumn tour. Two further shows in Germany will take place this month, before Dylan heads to the UK to wrap up his tour. Five dates at London’s Royal Festival Hall are scheduled, as well as shows in Sheffield, Birmingham, and Bournemouth.
Dylan has been reimagining his classic songs while on this tour, with a performance of Tryin’ to Get to Heaven praised by fans. The instrumental overhaul will be no surprise to veteran Dylan listeners, who by now know that he and the band often change the instrumental form and tempo of the song from night to night.
Fans flocked to the r/BobDylan subreddit where they shared their thoughts on his Wiener Stadthalle show. One song in particular, Tryin’ to Get to Heaven, has been given a huge instrumental change that has sat well with attendees. The fan in question posted a review of the show to the forum and said the “upbeat and jazzy” rendition is a wonderful alternative to the moody Time Out of Mind original.
They wrote: “People often say that they can’t recognise the songs when Dylan sings them. Even some longtime fans say this, and I always scoff a bit when they do because just two years in, I recognise them almost instantly. Tonight was the first time that it took me a long time. When he played Tryin’ to Get to Heaven, I recognised the lyrics and was singing along to them in my head, but I couldn’t place the song because the arrangement was so different. I had to wait until the chorus to figure it out.
“I take back all my scoffs. Even though I love the recorded version of this (particularly Version 2 on Fragments), this was a fantastic alternate arrangement. Really upbeat and jazzy.”
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