Paul Kelly has often been called ‘Australia’s Bob Dylan’. Now they are going to tour together.
Bob Dylan has chosen Paul Kelly has his special guest on his upcoming Australian tour.
Since that very first Paul Kelly & The Dots album ‘Talk’ in 1981, Kelly has consistently delivered uniquely Australian quality albums.
The catalogue includes what have become Australian rock standards like ‘Darling It Hurts’, ‘Before Too Long; and ‘To Her Door’.
Bob Dylan will turn 70 in May but since 1997 has delivered four of his greatest albums in ‘Time Out Of Mind’, ‘Love and Theft’, ‘Modern Times’ and ‘Together Through Life’.
The tour also features extra shows for Sydney and Melbourne.
Dates are:
April 19, Adelaide, Entertainment Centre (with BB King)
April 20 and 21, Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena (with Paul Kelly)
April 23, Wollongong, Entertainment Centre (with Paul Kelly)
April 28 and 28, Sydney, Entertainment Centre (with Paul Kelly)
The last Bob Dylan show was in November, 2010.
The setlist was:
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (from Slow Train Coming, 1979)
Lay Lady Lay (from Nashville Skyline, 1969)
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (from John Wesley Harding, 1967)
Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (from Love and Theft, 2001)
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (from The Times They Are A-Changing, 1964)
High Water (for Charley Patton) (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Visions of Johanna (from Blonde On Blonde, 1966)
Summer Days (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Love Sick (from Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
Highway 61 Revisited (from Highway 61 Revisited)
Workingman’s Blues #2 (from Modern Times, 2006)
Thunder On The Mountain (from Modern Times, 2006)
Ballad Of A Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited)
Jolene (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Like A Rolling Stone (from Highway 61 Revisited)
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