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Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan Treat Their Canons With Pomp and Playfulness in a Delightful Hollywood Bowl Tour Stop: Concert Review
At a Hollywood Bowl show under the Outlaw Music Festival banner, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan treated their canons with both reverence and good fun.
Alhough remaining seated alongside his colleagues these days, the 91-year-old sounds mostly in the same voice as ever, with a beautiful vocal suppleness especially apparent in lesser-known songs like “Still Is Still Moving to Me.” Maybe the greatest gift of seeing him now, though, is hearing how Trigger-happy he still is. But seriously: His hits-filled set — with a band that includes veteran players like Lisa Germano — feels so climactic, in and of itself, that it probably buys Dylan some latitude in doing some things that are more obscure, sandwiched between the failsafe rousers on the bill. Rounding out the lineup for this second leg is the excellent country newcomer Brittney Spencer, who wowed audiences recently at Stagecoach, and surely did here again, albeit unseen by some of us who struggled to get in under the wire of the 5 p.m. weekday start time.
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