BOB DYLAN : BLOOMINGTON 2021

  1. Watching the River Flow
  2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
  3. I Contain Multitudes
  4. False Prophet
  5. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  6. Black Rider
  7. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  8. My Own Version of You
  9. To Be Alone With You
  10. Early Roman Kings
  11. Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
  12. Gotta Serve Somebody
  13. I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
  14. Melancholy Mood
  15. Mother of Muses
  16. Goodbye Jimmy Reed
  17. Every Grain of Sand

Label : no label

Venue : Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Recording Date : November 7, 2021

Length : 94:16

Quality : Audience recording (A-)

Review : Nice audience recording, recorded from five rows back from left side stack. Bob is clearly enjoying himself and glad to be back onstage again.

Concert review (BobLinks) : The setlist was the same as the last several nights, 17 songs, no encore, per se. What a strange set-list it is! The older songs are known to Bobists of course--all the songs are known to Bobists--but they aren't his huge hits, by any means. One only released as a single. One from the gospel period (but yeah, he won a Grammy for it). A couple country romps from '67 and '69, one of those entirely--and I mean entirely!--rewritten (and each "deep cuts" from their albums). A song from Tempest, but none from TOOM, L&T, the Oscar winner of yore, and nothing from H61R, FWBD, or most of his back catalog in fact. All of which is so, so great, I could hug him. We Bobists want Bob to be Bob. If he was trying to be someone else, that other person would do that better, but we wouldn't like it half as much. Go, Bob! You do you. That's why you got to where you are today, in fact. They don't just toss Nobel Prizes at folk for playing it safe, after all. It was all good. All of it. Bob's piano playing is outstanding at times, especially False Prophet. His singing kills it, as everyone says. Could hear every word. The songs I was expecting to just endure from R&RW shined. Those I expected to love--Key West, eg--I loved (thanks, Donnie, for that accordion). All the playing was stellar. Great concert. Moody, intricate, precise, beautiful. Nice to see some young people in the crowd, some really losing it with excitement. He writes poems that make strong men lose their minds, indeed. Always has, and *still* does.