From: rollason54@gmail.com   
      
   There is a lot happening  in this year of 2023 on the Bob Dylan front. Two   
   bulky tomes are promised for later this year, one on the maestro’s   
   non-musical artistic work and another sampling the Dylan archive in Tulsa. In   
   addition, the music from Dylan’   
   s much-praised film performance from 2021, Shadow Kingdom, will be put on   
   general release in various formats in June.   
      
   As if all this did not suffice, on 12 April in the second Tokyo show of his   
   current Japanese tour, Dylan broke the mould of his Rough and Rowdy Ways   
   (RARW) setlist, to replace the cover of ‘That Old Black Magic’ with   
   another, very different one –    
   none other than the Grateful Dead classic ‘Truckin’’, first released in   
   1070 on their album American Beauty!    
      
   Dylan has covered a number of Grateful Dead songs in the past (including   
   ‘Friend of the Devil’, also from ‘American Beauty’ on the RARW tour),   
   but this one is a first. It is particularly interesting as this song has a   
   chapter devoted to it in    
   Dylan’s recent book The Philosophy of Modern Song. Will we be regaled with   
   more unexpected performances of material featured in that book ? If the   
   positive reception of that volume stimulates Bob Dylan’s creativity and   
   diversifies the concerts, that    
   surely can only be good news for his followers!   
        
      
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