Bob Dylan is one of the most analyzed, most celebrated, most lionized popular culture figures of the past 60 years. With that kind of exposure, you may very well be past your Dylan saturation level. And Amanda Petrusich’s criticism of his Philosophy of Modern Song, containing only four songs by women, is warranted. While archetypes should always be called into question — something Dylan has done in song often enough — he hasn’t become a legendary singer-songwriter for no reason.
He is, after all, the person who wrote “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” “Ballad of a Thin Man,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Knockin' on Heaven's Door” and, well, “Wiggle Wiggle” and the rudiments of “Wagon Wheel.” Appropriately enough, he borrowed a line from Walt Whitman and wrote one called “I Contain Multitudes” that’s a standout on his most recent studio album, 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways.
The tour in the wake of that remarkable record, delayed by COVID, came to the Ryman in March 2022. The tour is set to wrap this year, and it’s headed back our way very soon. His Bobness and his band will stop in at Brooklyn Bowl for two nights, March 26 and 27, with the show set to begin at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $94.50 and the general on-sale starts at 10 a.m. Central on Friday, March 8. Coat check is an available option, but thankfully it doesn’t seem like bowling during the show will be an option.
