Bob Dylan has debuted a dwell cowl of The Grateful Dead‘s 1970 hit ‘Truckin” whereas on tour in Japan.
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Dylan, who’s presently on the ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ tour in Japan, pulled out the shock cowl on the Tokyo Garden Theater on Wednesday (April 12). It marks the primary time that Dylan has carried out the track, in addition to one in all Dylan’s uncommon surprises in an in any other case customary setlist for the tour, which started in 2021.
Dylan wrote about The Grateful Dead’s ‘Truckin” in his recent book The Philosophy of Modern Song, noting that it has “a fantastic first verse, which doesn’t let up or fizzle out, and each verse that follows might really be a primary verse.”
You can take heed to an audio recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Truckin” cowl beneath.
The cowl additionally marks simply the fifth Grateful Dead cowl Dylan has carried out all through his lengthy and esteemed profession, following ‘Friend of the Devil’, ‘Alabama Getaway’, ‘West L.A. Fadeaway’ and ‘Black Muddy River’.
Dylan and The Grateful Dead have had a longstanding relationship, courting again to their joint tour in 1987. Over the course of the tour, the 2 acts would collaborate onstage collectively, resulting in their joint dwell album, ‘Dylan & The Dead’.
In June final 12 months, Dylan closed out a Rough and Rowdy Ways present in North America with a cowl of the Grateful Dead’s ‘Friend of the Devil’. It was the primary time since 2007 that Dylan had carried out the Dead track dwell, though it was once a staple of his units within the late ‘90s