Bob Dylan made a shock look at Farm Assist final night time, performing three songs with a backing band that included Mike Campbell, Belmont Tench and Steve Ferrone of the Heartbreakers.
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Taking part in electrical guitar as an alternative of the keyboards and grand piano he has favored at his personal reveals over the previous twenty years, Dylan opened with “Maggie’s Farm” from 1965’s Bringing It All Again Residence. He then carried out the 1965 single “Positively 4th Avenue” and closed one other 1965 track, “Ballad of a Skinny Man” from Freeway 61 Revisited. He left the stage as rapidly as he arrived, with out saying something to the gang.
In keeping with SetList.fm, it was the primary time Dylan had performed “Maggie’s Farm” since 2009 and the primary time he performed “Positively 4th Avenue” since 2013. Whereas he’s well-known for considerably re-arranging his most well-known songs in live performance, Dylan stayed surprisingly near their authentic sound right here.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers served as Dylan’s backing band on his 1986 True Confession and 1987 Temples in Flames excursions. Campbell and Tench have been within the band at the moment, Ferrone joined in 1994.
How Bob Dylan’s Stay Assist Feedback Helped Launch Farm Assist
It was Dylan’s onstage feedback at 1985’s Stay Assist live performance about American farmers needing monetary help that impressed Willie Nelson to stage the primary Farm Assist later that very same yr.
“I hope that among the cash … possibly they will simply take slightly little bit of it, possibly … one or two million, possibly … and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on among the farms and, the farmers right here, owe to the banks,” Dylan stated. His query didn’t sit effectively with Stay Assist organizer Bob Geldof. Indignant that Dylan was taking the main target off the victims of the 1983-1985 Ethiopian famine Stay Assist was organized to assist, he labeled them “crass, silly and nationalistic.”
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However Nelson felt otherwise. “The query hit me like a ton of bricks,” he informed Billboard in 2015. Neil Younger and John Mellencamp helped Nelson launch the now-annual occasion, which has up to now raised over $64 million to assist household farms and a sustainable meals system.
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Bob Dylan Albums Ranked
Not so surprisingly, Bob Dylan’s recording profession has a number of ups and downs. That is sure to occur once you stick round for greater than 50 years and launch three dozen albums throughout that point.
