Bob Dylan brought out Billy Strings to perform ‘All Along the Watchtower’. Check it out below.
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The moment took place on Thursday night (22 May) at Willie Nelson’s ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour’ stop in Spokane, Washington. It marked one of Strings’ final performances on the tour, with the musician leaving the rotating line-up yesterday (May 25).
The performance saw Strings on acoustic guitar and Dylan on vocals and piano as they re-worked his 1967 hit. Check out fan-shot footage below.
Previously on the ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour’, Dylan covered The Pogues’ ‘A Rainy Night in Soho’ for the first time, and broke out the first live rendition of ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ in 15 years.
He also covered Ricky Nelson’s ‘Garden Party’ – a track that includes a reference to himself – for the first time ever.
The tour will run for 36 dates, and will include performances from the likes of Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and The Avett Brothers. You can find a full list of dates here, and any remaining tickets here.
In other Bob Dylan news, there are rumours that Timothée Chalamet – who played the songwriter in A Complete Unknown – may be planning to break out some of the artist’s classic tracks alongside a cover band at Glastonbury 2025.
Nothing has been confirmed as of yet, however, some tabloids including The Sun have claimed that the actor is planning on performing a brief set with the Bob Dylan tribute group Not Completely Unknown on Saturday June 28. They are allegedly going to be performing on the Acoustic Stage, which only has space for a few thousand people compared to the 200,000-capacity Pyramid Stage.
If the appearance at Glasto 2025 were to materialise, it would follow on from Chalamet delivering a live performance on Saturday Night Live earlier this year, which saw him play a trio of the singer’s tracks.
NME gave the biopic a four-star review, with Alex Flood writing: “The most important (and often trickiest) job of any music movie is to get the music right. And this nails that. If you’re a Bob newbie, you’ll leave the cinema ready to dive into his back catalogue. If you’re already a fan, the next few weeks will be spent making playlists of lesser-known B-sides or reading the lore around a scene you weren’t familiar with. And that’s why it was a good idea to make this film – a mad idea, but a good one.”
Speaking about the importance of committing himself to the character, Chalamet then told NME in January that he was willing to work as long as possible to get the character and musical performances right in the biopic.
“I had the time to put the 10,000 hours in, which in a three-month, four-month period you really can’t… There wasn’t a deadline on it,” he said. “I wasn’t learning for anyone else. I was learning for myself.”
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