After my last Bob Dylan concert in 2006, I figured that was it. After all, he was in his mid-60s even then, and his voice wasn’t getting any better. But recordings of his current tour are making the rounds, and I was impressed with how good he and his band sounded. Not only was he killing it on electric piano, but his singing had somehow improved.
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So on Thursday, my son, Tim, and I headed to the Leader Bank Pavilion for what turned out to be an outstanding performance. Dylan, now 85, is if anything even quirkier than he used to be. He’s been wearing a raincoat with a hood on stage lately, he had the stage video monitors turned off, and he said not one word, simply segueing from one song to another without a break for an hour and 20 minutes.