Bob Dylan Setlist Sheffield 2009

Das war die Setlist Bob Dylan’s am Freitag, 24. April 2009, Sheffield Arena, Sheffield (UK):

Cat’s In The Well (Under the Red Sky, 1990)
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
Things Have Changed (film song, Single, 2000)
Boots Of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964)
The Levee’s Gonna Break (Modern Times, 2006)
Sugar Baby (Love And Theft, 2001)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Love And Theft, 2001)
Po’ Boy (Love And Theft, 2001)
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
Make You Feel My Love (Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
Highway 61 Revisited (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Love Sick (Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
Thunder On The Mountain (Modern Times, 2006)
Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)

(encore)
All Along The Watchtower (John Wesley Harding, 1967)
Spirit On The Water (Modern Times, 2006)
Blowin’ In The Wind (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)

Band:
Bob Dylan – keyb, gtr, harp
Tony Garnier – bass
George G. Receli – dr
Stu Kimball – rhythm gtr
Denny Freeman – lead gtr
Donnie Herron – steel gtr, violin, viola, banjo, mandolin

The Star: “AN off-stage voice introduces him as a poet, a prophet, the victim of drug-fed indulgence. And the clichés, the name-calling the faithful know Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime denying, is drowned out as the band meanders into life.
A prophet? A messiah? Nah! Just a guy who writes simple songs. And to prove it, he started the show with Under the Red Sky’s Cat’s in the Well, a nursery rhyme, a nonsense song in 12-bars.
The band lined up facing Bob and he held them in his gaze through two hours of the best, most compelling music Sheffield’s heard in years.
It was as though he was the sorcerer (an illusion emphasised by the compass rose projected on to the stage floor) showing the way to his wayward apprentices. Then, he became a lion tamer, holding a pride of guitar wielding primitives in check.
Half the songs came from his last three albums (none from his newest, released today). They were performed pretty close to the recorded versions. Old classics (All Along the Watchtower, Like a Rolling Stone, It’s Alright Ma, etc) were reworked so they belong in these modern times.
Some would prefer to hear the old favourites done the old way. But Dylan is never going to give us a Greatest Hits tour.
And his Sheffield Arena show showed why. There is still plenty of creative genius flowing through his veins. But a messiah? Well, the night closed with another denial of prophet-hood. He hasn’t got the key to the world’s woes. The answer is still blowin’ in the wind…”

Sheffield Telegraph: “What a disappointment: not with Dylan, not with his band, and not with the music. It was the audience – or the large proportion of it with an apparent drink problem or with a poor attention span. Why else the constant procession during the performance of people up and down the stairs on their way to and from the bar?
No doubt the sale of drinks is a good revenue earner for Sheffield Arena, but it seems a great shame that the management can’t limit this to intervals and before and after performances rather than allowing people to wander around the venue as though they’re at home rather than in a public place where they interfere with other people’s enjoyment …”