No call back, even under the pretext of a return, Thursday 24 October in the great hall of La Seine musicale, on the island of Seguin, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). A place thatinaugurated on April 21, 2017. Bob Dylan’s audience knows that for ages the 83-year-old American songwriter and singer has not indulged in this ritual. And no phones, to put in your pockets, to make the most of the concert.
No change in the repertoire from the previous concerts on the European leg of his tour, which began on October 4 in Prague and is scheduled until November 14 in London – with, at La Seine musicale, a second concert on the 25th, completely like the one on 24. Except Dignity played first night in Prague, since replaced by Watching the River Flowas indicated bobdylan.com websiteregularly updated.
So let’s start with Also along the WatchtowerThen It’s not me, baby. Dylan sits behind his piano, center stage, but for these two shows he has a guitar, which he has hardly used in concert for years due to pain in his hands and arms. He draws some notes that more or less match the two songs, which are, as usual when he returns to his best-known titles, a little compared to the original recordings.
Annual trip
Tonight, and as every night since he resumed, in 2021, after the interruption, in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual journey of about a hundred concerts that began in 1988, Bob Dylan brings out songs of on his album. Rough and bumpy roadsreleased in 2020. With his live band – currently guitarists Doug Lancio and Bob Britt, bassist Tony Garnier and drummer Jim Keltner – he performs nine, leaving out the tenth, which is a shame, The most wrong crime and they have almost seventeen minutes.
If we discern, in the husky voice, whose nasal aspect has faded, of Bob Dylan, who eats part of the words, elements of the choruses that allow the identification of old themes such as – in addition to those mentioned above – Desolation turn Or It’s all over now, Baby Bluethese are his songs Rough and bumpy roads which Dylan strives to bring to life with arrangements that transform without distorting. Dylan, most of the time sitting behind his piano, sometimes moves away from it, taking short solo parts in his interventions, which he seems to enjoy.
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