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)