Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams to Recreate ‘Blood on the Tracks’ at 50th Anniversary Show
Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and many other musicians will recreate Bob Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks onstage at a 50th anniversary concert next month, joined by three of the album’s original musicians. The Jan. 24 tribute concert, Shelter From the Storm, is organized by the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will take place in that city’s Cain’s Ballroom.
Actor Luke Wilson is set to host the evening, which will feature a complete performance of the album, plus other selections from Dylan’s catalog. The concert’s performers also include Diana Krall, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs, Laura Cantrell, Martin Courtney of Real Estate, U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo, Robyn Hitchcock, Lonnie Holley, Paul Metsa, Kevin Morby, Michael Shannon with Jason Narducy, Emma Swift, and Sharon Van Etten.
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Three original musicians from the Minnesota sessions for Blood on the Tracks will join the performance: keyboardist Greg Inhofer, guitarist Kevin Odegard, and bassist Billy Peterson. Odegard will perform using the same Martin acoustic guitar he used in the original sessions, an instrument now part of the Bob Dylan Center’s permanent collection. “[Dylan] was just on fire,” Odegard told Rolling Stone, looking back on the recording of “Idiot Wind” during those sessions. “A lot of that Highway 61 angry energy in the air.”
Dylan is looming large in pop culture lately, with a Timothée Chalamet-starring biopic, A Complete Unknown, due out Dec. 25. Read our in-depth cover story on the film here.
Tickets for the anniversary concert will be available first to Bob Dylan Center members Dec. 12, followed by a general public sale Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. CT through the Bob Dylan Center’s website.
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