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Suggestion: 2019 NET updates to songs

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Timothy C Swaddling Timothy C Swaddling's picture
Suggestion: 2019 NET updates to songs

As requested on the FB group, here is the posting suggesting to add some notes / lyric variations / tabs / chords for the various versions that Bob played in 2019, which may end up being the last year of his live performances and / or the NET depending on the pandemic, effectiveness of vaccines going forward (and potentially the financial viability of touring with what apparently will be sky rocketing insurance rates for older, high valued artists like Bob and others).

Note: I hope I am completely wrong. Rumblings that Bob would be willing to tour and break even if the finances are swallowed by the insurance. Would love to be wrong. He was on a real role. 

Anyways - some songs got some real amazing reworkings (Not Dark Yet, Dignity) and would be interesting to tab those. They essentially stayed the same from night to night, as setlists have become more or less static during touring years for some time now. In that era of the NET though, a very strong case could be made that 2019 was the best of those years and you can hear him thinking about Rough & Rowdy Ways with all the new arrangements, lyric rewrites, etc. Not Dark Yet's sparse arrangement definitely forecasts something like I Contain Multitudes or Murder Most Foul's open structure.

Anyways, just think it would be interesting for you to do the 2019 NET update to all the songs performed that year. Especially the Fall 2019. Some great stuff. And it could be, sadly, historically significant - where the NET ends (and Bob as a performing artist, which I think he considers / considered his primary outlet). And just summarize where things ended up with the amazing journey that was the Never Ending Tour.

 

Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Michigan
Hill Auditorium
November 6, 2019

1.    Things Have Changed (Bob center stage on guitar, Donnie on violin)
2.    It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin)
3.    Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel)
4.    Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on piano then center stage with harp, Donnie on violin)
5.    Can't Wait (Bob center stage, Donnie on lap steel
6.    When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob on piano then center stage with harp, 
Donnie on violin)
7.    Honest With Me (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin)
8.    Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin, 
Tony on standup bass)
9.    Make You Feel My Love (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on violin)
10.    Pay In Blood (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel)
11.    Lenny Bruce (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin)
12.    Early Roman Kings (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, 
Tony on standup bass)
13.    Girl From the North Country (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel, 
Bob Britt guitar with bottleneck, Tony on standup bass)
14.    Not Dark Yet (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel)
15.    Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel)
16.    Soon After Midnight (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel)
17.    Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel)
      
     (encore)
18.    Ballad of a Thin Man (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on pedal steel)
19.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

eyolf eyolf's picture
Thanks! I’ll have a go at it.

Thanks! I’ll have a go at it.

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