11/12/17 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA

Woke up kind of tired, and all day I was thinking, do I really want to see the same show again? And the answer to that question of course is it’s Bob Dylan. But that really wasn’t the answer. As it turned out the answer really was because it’s FUCKING BOB DYLAN man! The energy at the show tonight was on another level entirely.

Saturday night, Mavis Staples was a bundle of energy. Tonight she was a fireball that never let up, and she did some different songs. A couple of songs in she pulled out the Staples Singers version of “For What It’s Worth” which was amazing in itself, but then a couple of songs later she did an extended version of “Freedom Highway” that not only brought the crowd to its feet, but turned the Tower Theater into a revival meeting. It was an incredible moment.

When Bob Dylan took the stage tonight as Stu Kimball was winding down his acoustic rendition of “Royal Canal,” he didn’t go right to the piano, but walked to the front of the stage and then went to the piano as …