Bob Dylan has coated the Grateful Useless‘s ‘Stella Blue’ throughout a present in Spain earlier this week.
Dylan was performing on the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on Friday (June 23) when he performed a rendition of the track, initially taken from the Useless’s 1973 album ‘Wake of the Flood’.
Whereas the latest live performance marked Dylan’s first time performing ‘Stella Blue’, it continues a latest streak of Grateful Useless covers the legendary singer-songwriter has performed this yr. Watch fan-shot footage of Dylan performing ‘Stella Blue’ under:
In April, whereas touring Japan in assist of newest album ‘Tough and Rowdy Methods’, Dylan debuted two Grateful Useless covers at separate exhibits on the run – each songs taken from 1970 album ‘American Magnificence’. He coated ‘Truckin” throughout a present in Tokyo on April 12, then performed a rendition of ‘Brokedown Palace’ throughout a gig in Nagoya on April 18.
Earlier than this yr, Dylan had solely coated 4 Grateful Useless songs dwell all through his profession: ‘Buddy of the Satan’, ‘West L.A. Fadeaway’, ‘Alabama Getaway’ and ‘Black Muddy River’. Dylan toured with the Grateful Useless in 1987, ensuing within the dwell album ‘Dylan & the Useless’.
Earlier this month, Dylan launched new album ‘Shadow Kingdom’. The album featured the recordings that appeared in his Alm Har’el-directed 2021 live performance movie of the identical title, which featured Dylan and a backing band “performing” alongside to pre-recorded tracks from throughout his again catalogue.
Dylan’s most up-to-date studio album, ‘Tough and Rowdy Methods’, arrived in 2020. In a five-star overview, NME known as the document “arguably [Dylan’s] grandest poetic assertion but, a sweeping panorama of tradition, historical past and philosophy”.
