Music icon Bob Dylan will play in concert in Sioux City on April 2, as he expands the tour he is carrying out in the Upper Midwest.
The concert will be held at the Orpheum Theatre.
Dylan was an early inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has been much discussed lately after the December 2024 release of the biopic film “A Complete Unknown, which chronicles his music career launch from 1961 onward.
“A Complete Unknown” caused some people who got hooked on Dylan for the first time, while others relished the attention his career has drawn anew.
For this show of What’s The Frequency, we are delving into the career of Dylan, a few days before he plays what will be his third-ever concert in Sioux City, including his second at the Orpheum.
The guests for the show include three people who can discuss varying aspects of the career of the man who was born with the name Bob Zimmerman, growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota before he moved to New York City in 1961 in his early twenties.
Those were Dave Bernstein, a concert promoter who is president of The Orpheum Theater Board of Directors, and Arian Sheets, the Curator of Stringed Instruments at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, which is home to two musical items once played by Dylan. The third guest is Missy Bowen, who has long followed Dylan and asserts he should be a Poet Laureate.
Bernstein has a few tales of the prior two times Dylan played in Sioux City. Those include what happened when meeting the musician after the show with a friend who knew him from 1950's summer camp, and how another friend missed out on a chance to serve Dylan in a pub prior to a concert.
We also delve into the Dylan discography, including
“Highway 61 Revisited” from 1965 and “Blood on the Tracks,” which was something of a comeback artistically in 1975.
Rolling Stone magazine in 2010 named the Dylan song “Like a Rolling Stone” as the Greatest Song of All Time. That summary cited how Dylan bent folk music to his own will, thereby, “transforming popular song with the content and ambition with Like A Rolling Stone.”
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What's The Frequency, Episode 58.
