Bob Dylan will tour with Willie Nelson & Family this summer. As reported by bobdylan.com, “The Bob Dylan Show” will be played in 22 Baseball parks starting in the home of Baseball’s Hall Of Fame – Cooperstown, New York.
Dylan has performed with legendary songwriter Willie Nelson several times before. This however will be the very first time on tour together.
After Johnny Cash’s passing Dylan commented on bobdylan.com: “Johnny was and is the North Star; you could guide your ship by him – the greatest of the greats then and now. [...] Listen to him, and he always brings you to your senses. He rises high above all, and he’ll never die or be forgotten, even by persons not born yet – especially those persons – and that is forever.”
Dylan and Cash first met during the early 1960s. In 1969 they collaborated in Nashville, only one song of the recording sessions however was released on Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline”: a re-recorded duet of “Girl of the North Country”.
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16 years after their last joint live tour which resulted in the album “Dylan & The Dead” (1988) Bob Dylan will once more join the former “Grateful Dead”-members including Mickey Hart and Bob Weir for a nine concerts tour starting 15 June in Tennessee.
They will be accompanied by Neil Young in Texas for the Independence Day concert on the 4th of July.