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I'll have to agree with you on the Great Salt Air venue; not much to write home about. I wondered how they snagged Bob Dylan, had his career hit rock bottom and that's the only type of place that would book him?

The answer is no, look at some of the other venues on this tour and they are first class and another no on his career at rock bottom, the show was great. He started out a bit rough and raspy but soon warmed up and you had to love that voice and the band was tight with a very nice play set, they rocked on Highway 61 Revisited. I would like to have seen something by Traveling Wilburys but I’ll live with what was presented that night.

I was somewhat surprised by the number of young people in the crowd but then again if you look at the musicians he had been involved with early in his career, George Harrison, Sam Cooke, Joan Baez and then the ones in the latter years such as Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones and Los Lobos how could they not be attracted to the person and his music.

Even in those less than swell surroundings you had to appreciate who was on stage and the man himself. A singer-songwriter, musician, poet, painter and the recipient of awards such as Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Awards and on top of that a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The biggie being the Pulitzer Prize jury awarding him a special citation for what they called his profound impact on popular music and American culture, “marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power”

All in all it was a memorable night and yes, even the venue will be remembered but not in the positive way Bob Dylan will have been.