DYLAN II: Like most songwriters, Dylan resists...
DYLAN II: Like most songwriters, Dylan resists evaluating his own songs, but one measure of his feeling about his material is the songs he chooses to perform in concert.
What are his most-performed songs?
For the answer, Pop Eye turned to Glen Dundas’ book “Tangled Up in Tapes Revisited,” which includes the set list for each of the nearly 700 concerts Dylan gave between 1966 and 1990, when the book was published.
The most frequently performed:
* “Like a Rolling Stone”--which he sang in 509 of the monitored shows. Dylan didn’t do the song on any of the 79 shows on the 1979-80 gospel tours nor the 52 shows on the 1975-76 Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
* “Ballad of a Thin Man”--approximately 375 times or in about 55% of the shows.
* “All Along the Watchtower,” “Maggie’s Farm” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” all around the 350 mark.
Among the next in line: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’ “--all around 260 times.
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