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As Bob Dylan Turns 84, Why His Outlaw Music Festival With Willie Nelson Is This Year’s Mustn’t-Miss Tour: Age Is Nothing but a Number, Until It’s Everything
As Bob Dylan turns 84 and Willie Nelson skates past 92, the Outlaw Music Festival tour is a chance to have at least half of Mount Rushmore come to you.
Greil Marcus once wrote a book about “the old, weird America” focused on Dylan, and Nelson ought to fit into that, too, as one of our seminal dusty beat poets, even if his appeal is so broad and his persona so warm that his music is welcome in practically every home in the United States. One of the great joys of his set in recent years has been his inclusion of a song the plurality of fans probably wouldn’t miss if he excluded it, the 1993 track “Still Is Still Moving to Me,” which is arguably one of his very best — and possibly the one that best represents the Zen-ness we have long associated with his laid-back yet quietly driven persona. In that final stretch, going from his cover of Tom Waits’ poetic “Last Leaf on the Tree” to the strictly hilarious “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” and “Still Not Dead” to the spirituals “I Thought About You, Lord” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken/I’ll Fly Away” (with “I Saw the Light” as his exit music).
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