Proclaim The Creed: Live, 2021 - 2022

False Prophet - Live - Bloomington - November 7, 2021
I Contain Multitudes - Live - Cardiff - October 26, 2022
When I Paint My Masterpiece - Live - Tucson - March 4, 2022
My Own Version Of You - Live - North Charleston - March 27, 2022
I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You - Live - Bloomington - November 7, 2021
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight - Live - Tucson - March 4, 2022
Crossing The Rubicon - Live - Shreveport - March 18, 2022
To Be Alone With You - Live - Berlin - October 6, 2022
Key West - Live - Albuquerque - March 6, 2022
Melancholy Mood - Live - Philadelphia - November 30, 2021
Mother Of Muses - Live - Boise - June 28, 2022
Goodbye Jimmy Reed - Live - Albuquerque - March 6, 2022
Every Grain Of Sand - Live - Cardiff - October 26, 2022

Bonus

Black Rider - Live - Washington, DC - December 2, 2022
Gotta Serve Somebody - Live - Philadelphia - November 30, 2021
I Can’t Seem To Say Goodbye - Live - Nottingham - October 28, 2022
Key West - Live - Milwaukee - November 2, 2021
Key West - Live - Boise - June 28, 2022
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I Go Mine) - Live - Cardiff - October 26, 2022
Watching The River Flow - Live - Albuquerque - March 6, 2022

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When Covid-19 spread across the world in 2020, Bob Dylan’s live show was necessarily put on hold. We received Rough & Rowdy Ways and Shadow Kingdom in the interim, but nothing could sate the excitement we collectively had for our guy to get back on the road once safer conditions prevailed. And in Fall 2021, they did.

Bob Dylan returned to concert halls around North America on a new tour - perhaps the first in his career - explicitly designed to promote his newest studio recording. The Rough & Rowdy Ways Tour would almost exclusively highlight songs from the eponymous album and its 2021 back-catalog counterpart, Shadow Kingdom. Slimming down the setlist selections even further from the already-tight 2019 shows allowed Dylan and his band to explore these magical songs with the depth they deserved.

“False Prophet” is fiercer than its album take, “I Contain Multitudes” is more evocative, and “My Own Version Of You” is alternately more menacing and funnier. “Key West” receives a definitive reading here, offering introspection and peace in equal measure. “When I Paint My Masterpiece” and “To Be Alone With You” are downright playful, and “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” sounds like it was made to be played in this jaunty arrangement. “Jimmy Reed” shuffles along with an infectiously fun vocal performance. These shows represent the triumphant, joyful communal experience fans had been awaiting over the preceding two years of hardship.

In an effort to focus on the best of the best, I’ve trimmed the standard opening tracks “Watching The River Flow” and “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I Go Mine)” from this collection and played a bit creatively with the sequence. Don’t worry, though: listeners who’d like an accurate representation of the average concert will find these songs among the bonus material here. I’ve also included a Jerry Lee Lewis cover played in honor of its composer’s death in 2022 along with two additional versions of “Key West” that demonstrate that song’s unique evolution over the course of the 2021 and 2022 tours.

I hope it’s been worth the wait! Until next time, keep yourself healthy and listen to some good tunes.

Cheers,
CS

Update: Folks who downloaded this within the first 12 hours of publication on 3/31/24 will find that one of the tracks - "False Prophet" - has a pretty bad audio problem due to an export issue I ran into in Audacity. A revised version has now been published.