5 Dylan songs for a birthday party and 5 MInnesota shout-outs

May 23, 2011 at 2:28AM

5 DYLAN SONGS FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY

"Forever Young"

"I'll Remember You"

"Precious Memories"

"New Morning"

"Ring Them Bells"

5 MINNESOTA SHOUT-OUTS

"I've had enough of that New York," Dylan said at a 1978 concert at St. Paul Civic Center, promising to come back often to Minnesota.

"You can't sing and play like that unless you come from around here somewhere," he said after a rousing "Tangled Up in Blue," Midway Stadium, 1997.

"I was born just over those hills." At Bayfront Park, Duluth, 1999.

"For my man, who reached the end of the road up there in Eveleth." Dedicating "The Times, They Are A-Changin'" to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, Xcel Energy Center, 2002.

"It looks like things are going to change now," he said on the night Barack Obama was elected president, Northrop Auditorium, 2008.

5 BEST LOCAL DYLAN CONCERTS I'VE SEEN

St. Paul Civic Center, 1978

Orpheum Theatre, five nights, 1992

Target Center, 1998 (with Joni Mitchell as opening act)

Somerset, Wis., 2003 (Dylan opened for the Dead)

Midway Stadium, 2005 (with Willie Nelson)

about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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