On this day, 27 June 2006, music legend Bob Dylan played Cardiff International Arena on what was titled Never Ending Tour.
Dylan had recently finished his 32nd studio album Modern Times which was released August 29, 2006.
The album was recorded with Dylan's touring band, including bassist Tony Garnier, drummer George G. Receli, guitarists Stu Kimball and Denny Freeman, plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. This iteration of the Never Ending Tour band had played with Dylan for the entirety of 2005.
During a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan spoke about his band at that time:
This is the best band I've ever been in, I've ever had, man for man. When you play with guys a hundred times a year, you know what you can and can't do, what they're good at, whether you want 'em there. It takes a long time to find a band of individual players. Most bands are gangs. Whether it's a metal group or pop rock, whatever, you get that gang mentality. But for those of us who went back further, gangs were the mob. The gang was not what anybody aspired to. On this record [Modern Times] I didn't have anybody to teach. I got guys now in my band, they can whip up anything, they surprise even me.
Setlist
Maggie's Farm
She Belongs to Me
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Positively 4th Street
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Love Sick
Watching the River Flow
Ballad of a Thin Man
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Girl From the North Country
Cold Irons Bound
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Summer Days
Encore:
Like a Rolling Stone
All Along the Watchtower
