From the Guardian, Radio 2 to broadcast a ‘virtual’ live Bob Dylan concert.

BBC Radio 2 is to broadcast a “virtual” live Bob Dylan concert featuring rare performances spanning 39 years, including four recordings never heard before outside of the arena in which they were played.

The Dream Dylan Concert will include 11 rare live recordings stretching from 1962 to 2001, including Maggie’s Farm from 1965, Like A Rolling Stone from 1974, To Make You Feel My Love in 1985, and the Oscar-winning Things Have Changed from 2000.

Radio 2’s virtual Dylan concert will also feature a song from one of his 12 nights in San Francisco in November 1980, which saw him reunite with guitarist Mike Bloomfield, with whom he collaborated in 1965.

OK. In these days of widely circulating live recordings on the internet, it’s a little hard to go into paroxysms of joy on hearing that 11 performances are going to be broadcast on the radio. This article teases, but doesn’t explain what the “four recordings never heard before outside of the arena in which they were played” actually are. I guess there could be a whole lot of contenders, really, especially if you include once-off live covers Dylan has done through the years.

Even more exciting is the thought of hearing Make You Feel My Love from 1985, as the article states it, since Dylan didn’t record and release that song until 1997’s Time Out of Mind album. I guess we have to assume that’s a typo or an editing error of some kind.

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