Thursday, Nov 16, 2017
Bob Dylan
With Mavis Staples
- Date
- Thursday, Nov 16, 2017
- Show time
- 7:30 PM
- Venue
- Agganis Arena
- City
- Boston, MA
- Went with
- Becky
- Seating
- 103
- Face value
- $79.50
- Promoter
- Live Nation Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Billed as "Bob Dylan and His Band." Mavis Staples opened — John remembers the slot; setlist.fm had her on the bill but stores no running order.
What they played
- Things Have Changed
- It Ain't Me, Babe
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Why Try to Change Me Now Cy Coleman Jazz Trio cover
- Summer Days
- Melancholy Mood Kenny Baker cover
- Honest With Me
- Tryin' to Get to Heaven
- Once Upon a Time Charles Strouse cover
- Pay in Blood
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Soon After Midnight
- Early Roman Kings
- Scarlet Town
- Desolation Row
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Autumn Leaves Yves Montand cover
- Love Sick
Encore
- Blowin' in the Wind
- Ballad of a Thin Man
20 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
The last Dylan in the archive, and the bill carried sixty years of history: Mavis Staples opened — the Staple Singers' voice of the civil rights movement, and the woman Dylan proposed to in the early sixties, a story she's told with delight ever since. She said no; the friendship outlasted everything. Dylan was deep in his American-songbook period, croon and fedora, rearranging his catalog past recognition as always. John and Becky watched two national monuments share a hockey arena in November.
From the time
- Mavis Staples
“The civil-rights-era voice who turned down Dylan's marriage proposal and opened for him half a century later.”
The stub
