This past Thursday, April 16, 2015 Neil Young performed a batch of new songs backed by a band featuring Lukas and Micah Nelson on electric guitars, Corey McCormick on bass and Anthony Logerfo on drums.

According to JamBase:

The quintet played a total of ten new songs many of which railed against such companies as Monsanto and Starbucks according to fan reports. But the five-piece also dipped into Young’s back catalogue for seven classics including “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” “Down By The River” and Neil’s first take on “Walk On” since 2000. Tickets to the last minute show cost a mere $10. Neil Young first teamed with The Nelson Brothers and members of Promise of the Real for appearances at last fall’s Farm Aid, Harvest For Hope benefit and Bridge School Benefit Concerts.

Neil Young & band, “Walk On”:

Brief excerpt of “Down By The River”:

Brief excerpt of “Love And Love Only”:

Set List via Sugar Mountain:

1. Country Home
2. New Song 1 – People Want To Hear About Love ??*
3. New Song 2 – New Day For The Planet ??*
4. Down By The River
5. New Song 3 – Too Big To Fail ??*
6. New Song 4 – GMO-Starbucks ??*
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7. Walk On
8. New Song 5 – Monsanto ??*
9. New Song 6 – I Don’t Know You ??*
10. New Song 7 – Seeds ??*
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
12. Wolf Moon*
13. Love And Only Love
14. New Song 9*
15. New Song 10*
16. Country Home
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17. Roll Another Number

* – song debut

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Bob Dylan and his band performed at the North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center in Charleston, South Carolina on April 17, 2015.

The clip of the first set fades in during “Beyond Here Lies Nothing” so it’s missing “Things Have Changed” and “She Belongs To Me.”

First set:

Set list for audio of the first set, which is missing “Things Have Changed” and “She Belongs To Me”:

Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Workingman’s Blues #2
Duquesne Whistle
Waiting For You
Pay In Blood
Tangled Up In Blue
Love Sick

Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/events#ixzz3ZbxB4mZ1

Second set:

Set List for audio of the second set:

High Water (For Charley Patton)
Simple Twist Of Fate
Early Roman Kings
Forgetful Heart
Spirit On The Water
Scarlet Town
Soon After Midnight
Long And Wasted Years
Blowin’ In The Wind
Stay With Me

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Oh to have caught one of Bob Dylan’s show’s in 1966 when the songs he was playing had been written in the very recent past.

Forty-nine years ago, on April 20, 1966 Dylan performed solo and with most of The Hawks at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

Here are most of the songs performed that night.

If they don’t play for you, go to Grooveshark and do a search.

“She Belongs To Me”:

“Fourth Time Around”:

“Visions Of Johanna”:

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:

“Desolation Row”:

“Just Like A Woman” not available.

Here’s a version of “Just Like A Woman” from another show:

Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman (Live) from Vilosophe on Vimeo.

“Mr. Tambourine Man” not available.

“Tell Me Momma” (clip is mislabeled):

Interview plus “Tell Me Momma”:

“Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”:

“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”:

I’ve always loved this Bob Dylan song. I’ve got versions by Dylan himself as well as Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Joe Cocker.

Here’s a live version by Keith Richards from 1979:

Great version with Joe Cocker and Ron Wood from 1983:

And another Joe Cocker version from 1983:

Here’s Bob Dylan doing it live in 1976 shortly after he wrote it.

Here’s a live version by Ron Wood from 2012:

And here’s the excellent version off Ron Wood’s 1979 album, Gimme Some Neck.

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On April 10, 2015 Bob Dylan performed at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City.

Here is both “Sarlet Town” and “Soon After Midnight” from that night.

To hear the rest of Dylan’s set, head here.

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Forty-Nine years ago, on April 13, 1966 Bob Dylan performed at the Sydney Stadium in Sydney, Australia as part of his Bob Dylan World Tour 1966. The first half of the show was just Dylan, performing with acoustic guitar and harp. Then he was joined by most of The Hawks — guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson — plus Mickey Jones on drums for an electric set.

The 1966 tour is certainly a highlight of Dylan’s career. Below you can hear all the songs Dylan performed on April 13, 1966. “She Belongs To Me” is a little messed up at first but the rest of it and the others are quite good recordings.

Enjoy. (If for some reason they won’t play for you. go to GrooveShark and search for the songs.)

“She Belongs To Me”:

“Fourth Time Around”:

“Visions Of Johanna”:

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:

“Desolation Row”:

“Just Like A Woman”:

“Mr. Tambourine Man”:

“Tell Me, Momma”:

“I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)”:

“Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”:

“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”:

“Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat”:

“One Too Many Mornings”:

“Ballad Of A Thin Man”:

“Positively Fourth Street”:

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On April 11, 1961, Bob Dylan played his first major gig in New York. It was the first night of a two-week run opening for the great bluesman John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village.

It took some effort for Dylan to land the gig, according to Robert Shelton in his Dylan biography, “No Direction Home.”

Mike Porco ran the club and was open to new talent.

“When, in March 1961, one of [Mike Porco’s] regular customers, Mel Bailey, urged him to give Bobby Dylan a chance, Mike showed interest,” Shelton wrote. “He liked Bobby, but was afraid he was too young. … Mel and his wife Lillian, a dress designer, kept up their campaign, joned by the MacKenzies. If Mike booked Bobby, Eve MacKenzie promised to telephone everyone she knew in order to whip up business. Finally, Mike had a two-week opening for Bob beginning April 1 on a bill with John Lee Hooker… It was Bob’s first real job in New York a, and he was ecstatic.”

Dylan got to play five songs that first night. “House of the Rising Sun,” “Song to Woody,” “Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues,” and two others, identified only as “unknown Woody Guthrie song” and “a black blues,” according to New York magazine.

Dylan’s set was not recorded that night, but later that year, when he returned to Gerde’s in September, two songs were recorded and you can listen to them below, or if they won’t play for you, head directly to Grooveshark and search for them.

“San Francisco Bay Blues,” September 29, 1961, Gerde’s Folk City with Jim Kweskin:

“Railroading On The Great Divide,” September 29, 1961, Gerde’s Folk City (probably with Jim Kweskin):

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