Bob Dylan Kicks Off Tour With Live Debuts, Rarities, And Yet Another New Guitarist

Last night (Oct. 17) in Oslo, Bob Dylan kicked off the Lights Of Autumn tour. At Oslo Spektrum, Dylan performed a 19-track set, playing the electric keyboard the entire night, with new covers of Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" and Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues." He also performed "Crash On The Levee" for the first time since 2005 and provided new lyrics for "Tangled Up In Blue," which he hadn't played since 2018.

Dylan made changes to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth verses on "Tangled Up In Blue." The biggest changes came in the third and fourth verses, which, transcribed from uploaded clips, read as such like this:

Way up in the frozen woods
Teardrops touch the sky 
The leaves are falling one by one
And the moments passing by 
Sometimes I get so tired 
Sometimes im getting away 
Lucky you found another 
Tomorrows another day 
And all the while I was alone 
The past was close behind
Seen a lot of people but 
I never escaped her mind 
She just grew 
Tangled up in blue 

Things were gettin’ to cost too much
Love had slipped through my hand
Certain truths are dancing
I never did understand
You bury the hatchet
You put her to bed 
Sometime you go for a ride
Nothing ever looks the same 
After you've been on the other side 
It turns around watch it disappear 
Whatever i was looking at 
He never did find it here 
Neither did you 
Tangled up in blue 

As we all know, Dylan's been rotating his guitarists this year. So of course he had a new one of those as well. It's reportedly Mike Seal. Dylan's played with Doug Lancio, Bob Britt, Julian Lage, Joel Paterson, and Jad Tariq, making Seal the the band's sixth guitarist in 2026.

Also, if you were wondering if Dylan (or someone on his behalf) was still constantly posting slop fiction on his Patreon, he certainly is.

Check out audio recordings from the show below.

SETLIST:

1. "To Be Alone With You"
2. "Man In The Long Black Coat"
3. "Down In The Flood" (first time since 2005)
4. "Tryin’ To Get To Heaven"
5. "Early Roman Kings"
6. "I Can Tell" (Bo Diddley cover)
7. "Tangled Up In Blue" (first time since 2018)
8. "Share Your Love With Me" (Bobby “Blue” Bland cover)
9. "Louisiana 1927" (Randy Newman cover, live debut)
10. "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
11. "I’ll Make It All Up To You" (Jerry Lee Lewis cover)
12. "Crossing The Rubicon"
13. "Soon After Midnight"
14. "Dublin Blues" (Guy Clark cover, live debut)
15. "Under The Red Sky"
16. "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You"
17. "Goodbye Jimmy Reed"
18. "I Shall Be Released"
19. "You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere"