Ride Me High
The performance comes two days after Dylan broke out the Basement Tapes super obscurity "Baby, Won't You Be My Baby" for the first time since recording it 59 yers ago
Two days after stunning his hardcore fans by playing the extreme deep cut “Baby, Won’t You Be My Baby” on the opening night of his summer tour, a song he hasn’t touched since recording it 59 years ago, Bob Dylan again revisited the Basement Tapes on the second evening of his tour in Woodinville, Washington, by opening up the show with “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.”
This wasn’t quite as surprising as “Baby, Won’t You Be My Baby,” since “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” is a famous song covered by everyone from the Byrds to Tom Petty and the Heartbreaks, but it’s still the first time that Dylan has played it in concert since 2012. He also let guitarists Doug Lancio and Bob Britt add light harmony vocals to the song. It was common for Dylan’s bandmates to sing with him in the Larry Campbell/Charlie Sexton period of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but this was completely phased out well over 20 years ago.
The rest of the set was very similar to night one, though he dropped his cover of Bo Diddley’s “I Can Tell,” added in “Love Sick,” and slightly adjusted the order of a few other songs. The bill also included Lucinda Williams and the John Doe Folk Trio. On night one, Doe played a few tunes by his band X (“See How We Are,” “Burning House of Love,” ” and “The New World”), and sang the Judy Garland standard “Over The Rainbow.” Williams, meanwhile, broke out “Car Wheels on a Grave Road,” “Joy,” and other classics.
