Breaking News boys and girls! Bob Dylan has announced three shows in Canada this summer, but eschewing the major urban centres he usually plays in favour of smaller towns off the beaten path. The folkfather of jam will return from a round of shows in Spain, Italy and France and head north for Canada (so maybe that headline should be Autobahn...but he wasnt in Germany...see, this is harder than it looks!), stopping August 10 in Lloydminster, SK (or is that AB?), August 11 in Lethbridge, AB and August 12 in Cranbrook, BC before heading south of the border.
Never been to Lloydminster so i cant vouch for the music scene there, but Lethbridge always draws a good crowd - I saw a rockin Neal Young show there a couple years ago - and Cranbrook might be one of the loveliest places in Canada in mid-August, so i dont blame him for wanting to go there. And im not going to make any comparisons to my grandmother moving to Arizona for the dry air, either.
Last time i saw Dylan he was truly on his game, at times sounding like
Chuck Berry, at others taking me back to his Dylan and the Dead days, at
others turning blue with jazz.But what is there to say about Bob Dylan, the 72-year-old musical genius who has been touring for more than five decades? As always, he speaks candidly and lets his music do the talking. He doesn't perform for anyone else, that's for sure. If you see Dylan live, don't expect to hear his canon of radio hits - that's not how he rolls. He'll play whatever he wants, change the lyrics and verses, and even the tune and cadence of his songs so you wont necessarily recognize that what he's playing is that song. But dont worry about it. Just sit back, let him speak to you with his keyboard or his guitar or his gravelly voice, and if you're truly lucky, maybe he'll even acknowledge the presence of the audience in the theatre. He rarely does.
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