Bob Dylan 2004 Never Ending Tour
Touring Band
Bob Dylan: vocal, electric keyboard (piano), harmonica
Larry Campbell: electric and acoustic guitar, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, electric & acoustic slide guitar, dobro, bouzouki, mandolin.
Freddy Koella: electric and acoustic guitar (first leg only)
Stu Kimball: electric and acoustic guitar (from June on)
Tony Garnier: bass
George Recile: drums
Richie Hayward: drums (first leg only)
Again four legs, three (plus a short warm-up) in the US, one in Europe (summer). The main set contains 14 songs, plus 2-4 encores. Between 0 and 5 acoustic songs are played, non in the encores. Rolling Stone and Watchtower remain the closing encores, night by night.
Some changes in the band. Guitarist Koella is replaced after the first leg by Stu Kimball. Second drummer Richie Hayward is disappeared after his solo first leg. Dylan remains unchanged behind his electric piano.
The first volume of Bob Dylan’s autobiography Chronicles is published in October. He is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland. Lyrics 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan is published (Simon & Schuster).
Recommended bootlegs
Bleeding Shadows (Crystal Cat Records KC 735-36). Castilla Motril 2004-10-07.
Rochester 2004 (Crystal Cat Records CC 752-53). Rochester, NY 2004-11-13. Interesting bonus tracks: Dylan playing jazz backed by the Wynton Marsalis Septet at Lincoln Center’s 2004 Spring Gala.