Bob Dylan Releases DVD of Newport Performances

Bob Dylan Releases DVD of Newport Performances

What's life without the occasional DVD? No stranger to cross-media promotions, XM radio host Bob Dylan will release The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 via Columbia/Legacy on October 30.

Collected on the DVD are 80 minutes of Dylan's performances at the titular festival during the titular years, most of which are previously unreleased. Aside from an interview with the project's Academy Award-winning director and producer Murray Lerner, the DVD has no bonus features.

For those who can't confine themselves to the mere home theater experience when it comes to live Dylan, he and his band have a handful of U.S. dates left on their previously reported tour with Elvis Costello. The next of those shows is in Iowa City on October 24.

After that tour ends, the I'm Not There Dylan tribute concert takes place November 7 in New York City. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the I'm Not There soundtrack drops October 30, the same day as the Newport DVD.

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965:

01 All I Really Want to Do [7/24/1965]
02 North Country Blues [7/26/1963]
03 With God on Our Side [ft. Joan Baez] [7/26/1963, 7/28/1963]
04 Talkin' World War III Blues [7/26/1963]
05 Who Killed Davey Moore? [7/27/1963]
06 Only a Pawn in Their Game [7/26/1963]
07 Blowin' in the Wind [ft. the Freedom Singers, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul & Mary] [7/26/1963]
08 Mr. Tambourine Man [7/24/1964]
09 It Ain't Me, Babe [ft. Joan Baez] [7/24/1964]
10 With God on Our Side [ft. Joan Baez] [7/26/1964]
11 Chimes of Freedom [7/26/1964]
12 If You Gotta Go, Go Now [7/24/1965]
13 Love Minus Zero/No Limit [7/24/1965]
14 Daytime Rehearsal [ft. electric band] [1965]
15 Maggie's Farm [ft. electric band] [7/25/1965]
16 Like a Rolling Stone [ft. electric band] [7/25/1965]
17 Mr. Tambourine Man [7/25/1965]
18 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [7/25/1965]

Dylan:

10-24 Iowa City, IA - Carver-Hawkeye Arena (University of Iowa) *
10-26 Omaha, NE - Qwest Center *
10-27 Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre *
10-28 Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre *
10-29 Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre *

* with Elvis Costello, Amos Lee

Posted by Dave Maher on Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 4:18pm