Pop music spotlight: Bob Dylan

August 18, 2012 at 11:03PM
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (Marci Schmitt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

BOB DYLAN

Tuesday: His Never Ending Tour began back in the late 1980s. Without taking a year off, the perpetual troubadour has done more than 2,300 shows on this tour. That's about 100 per year, but he doesn't seem to gig in his home state as often as he used to. Dylan's last Minnesota show was on election night in 2008 at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. Now, the 71-year-old icon is headed back to St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center the night after this year's presidential election. But first he's in Rochester, where he'll probably do his usual 17-song set -- but nothing from his new album "Tempest," due Sept. 11, as he often ignores his current album in concert. After all, he does have the best catalog in the business. (7:30 p.m. Tue. $49.50-$55. Mayo Civic Center, 30 Civic Center Dr., Rochester. 1-800-422-2199.)

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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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