(Photo: Clint Austin, Duluth News Tribune/Associated Press)

He doesn’t have the keys to the place anymore like he did in the ‘80s, but Bob Dylan will own the Orpheum Theatre for at least three nights, Nov. 4-6, when his never-ending tour takes up residency in Minneapolis. Tickets for the three-gig run go on sale Sept. 6 at noon through Ticketmaster or the State Theatre box office for $135, $85 and $55.

Dylan and his brother, David Zimmerman, were the owners of the Orpheum before it was taken over in 1988 by the Minneapolis Community Development Agency. At the time, Dylan lived part-time on his farm property along the Crow River in western Hennepin County and was known to take in a show now and then. He returned to the theater in 1992 and played a five-night engagement there.

 

While he may have a soft spot for the place, the Orpheum is not the only performance hall that size where the original Bobby Z is making himself at home on tour this fall. He also has multi-night runs booked at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre right after Minneapolis as well as in Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland and Philadelphia before finishing up with a four-nighter at New York’s Beacon Theater (Nov. 28-Dec. 2). Rolling Stone's report on the tour suggests there won't be much difference in the set lists from night to night.

Today’s fall tour announcement follows yesterday news that a six-disc collection of the famous “Basement Tapes” sessions with The Band will be issued as the latest installment of Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” on Nov. 4, the day of that first Orpheum gig.

Dylan’s last swing through his home state was last summer, when he headlined the Americanarama Tour with Wilco and My Morning Jacket at St. Paul’s Midway Stadium and Duluth’s Bayfront Park. He has made a habit of coming back to his native state on or near election day, including a 2012 show at Xcel Energy Center that fell on Nov. 7 and a 2008 gig at Northrop Auditorium that happened to fall on the night Barack Obama was elected.