Bob Dylan's recents setlists are very repetitive, so I think he's neglecting the full range of his incredible catalogue. I went through a Wikipedia list of 745 songs “by Bob Dylan”, deleted many of them, and ended up with my very personal list of 167 songs as a possible working repertoire for Dylan. That's heavy on my favorite albums, so I threw out a bunch more to get to 83 brilliant songs. (I've thought about a similar list for The Rolling Stones.) Then he could play three shows without repeats and always have some surprises available. Still, Dylan's 84 years old, so whatever he wants to play is cool, of course! (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 9 August 2025)
My Dylan list:
1. 4th Time Around
2. Absolutely Sweet Marie
3. All Along the Watchtower
4. All I Really Want to Do
5. As I Went Out One Morning
6. Ballad in Plain D
7. Ballad of a Thin Man
8. Blind Willie McTell
9. Blowin' in the Wind
10. Boots of Spanish Leather
11. Buckets of Rain
12. Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
13. Dear Landlord
14. Desolation Row
15. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
16. Down Along the Cove
17. Drifter's Escape
18. Early Roman Kings
19. Every Grain of Sand
20. Everything Is Broken
21. Forever Young
22. Girl from the North Country
23. A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
24. High Water (For Charley Patton)
25. Highway 61 Revisited
26. Hurricane
27. I Contain Multitudes
28. I Shall Be Released
29. I Want You
30. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
31. If Not for You
32. If You Ever Go to Houston
33. If You See Her, Say Hello
34. It Ain't Me Babe
35. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
36. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
37. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
38. John Brown
39. John Wesley Harding
40. Just Like a Woman
41. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
42. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
43. Lay Lady Lay
44. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
45. Like a Rolling Stone
46. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
47. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
48. Love Sick
49. Maggie's Farm
50. Make You Feel My Love
51. Masters of War
52. Mississippi
53. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
54. Mr. Tambourine Man
55. My Back Pages
56. Not Dark Yet
57. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
58. One Too Many Mornings
59. Pledging My Time
60. Positively 4th Street
61. Queen Jane Approximately
62. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
63. Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35
64. Sara
65. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
66. She Belongs to Me
67. Shelter from the Storm
68. Simple Twist of Fate
69. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
70. Subterranean Homesick Blues
71. Tangled Up in Blue
72. Tears of Rage
73. Things Have Changed
74. This Wheel's on Fire
75. The Times They Are a-Changin'
76. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
77. Visions of Johanna
78. Watching the River Flow
79. When I Paint My Masterpiece
80. The Wicked Messenger
81. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
82. You're a Big Girl Now
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83. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go