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Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Charm Hollywood Bowl With Favorites, Deep Cuts at Outlaw Music Festival Tour Stop
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson turned the Hollywood Bowl into a haven for Americana and country on Friday night, as the two legends brought the Outlaw Music Festival back to the storied venue for the second year in a row. Dylan went on just as dusk settled, and the stage lit up like a noir rodeo, revealing Dylan's signature piano. He and his band — dressed in black like outlaw undertakers — opened with a swaggering 'Things Have Changed.' More from The Hollywood Reporter John Mellencamp Honors Republic Records at Grammy Hall of Fame Gala U2 Legend Bono on Why the World Has Forgotten What Freedom and Democracy Mean Jewish Rapper and Comedian Kosha Dillz Says His Film's Canceled Screening Has Been Reinstated The stage setup was simple: An image of a peaceful mountain lake backdrop that resembled a fancy water bottle label, blending well with the surrounding Hollywood Hills, and a crowd full of cowboy hats and rhinestones. Opening for Dylan and Nelson Friday night were bluegrass stars Sierra Hull and Billy Strings, while upcoming Outlaw Fest 2025 tour stops will rotate in acts like Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, and Nathaniel Rateliff. Outlaw lineups in previous years have included Neil Young, Brandi Carlile, and Chris Stapleton. At 83, Dylan is still assertive, quirks and all. His piano was mixed unusually loudly, highlighting both rhythmic drive and occasional missed notes. It was a forgiving audience, many of whom were probably teens when Dylan released his first albums. Dylan's set was the most unpredictable going in. On this tour's opening nights, he shook up his recent Rough and Rowdy Ways tour material and instead pulled out deep cuts, first-time covers, and completely reimagined versions of beloved songs. To superfans, this evening might've felt like a rerun — nearly identical to his set the night before in Chula Vista — but to most, it was refreshingly strange, especially for the younger attendees seeing him for the first time after catching last year's A Complete Unknown but not realizing how much Dylan has transformed his live sound from the past few decades of touring. Tracks like 'Simple Twist of Fate,' 'Desolation Row,' and 'To Ramona' were reshaped with shuffling grooves and Dylan's honky-tonk piano. 'All Along the Watchtower' felt like a dare if Dylan could make one of his songs sound like Sade — a sentence this writer never expected to write. 'Blind Willie McTell' wore a Dire Straits combover. Even 'Under the Red Sky,' the title track from what was long considered one of Dylan's lesser albums, shed its early '90s sheen and was allowed to breathe, sounding especially spacious and pretty. Other Dylan gems — 'Forgetful Heart,' 'Love Sick,' 'Early Roman Kings' — remained close to their original recordings while he performed new-to-this-tour covers like George 'Wild Child' Butler's 'Axe and the Wind,' Charlie Rich's 'I'll Make It All Up to You,' and 'Share Your Love With Me' by Alfred Braggs and Deadric Malone. In typical Dylan fashion, he said little between songs, aside from a funny moment asking an audience member what they were eating. For the first several songs, the Bowl's monitors stayed off, as if Dylan didn't want to be seen. When they did come on a few songs in, to the audience's cheers, they only showed a far wide shot, still keeping the forever recluse mostly hidden. Every time Dylan picked up a harmonica, the crowd roared. The biggest applause came for the closer, 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right,' reimagined with jangly piano and harmonica. If Dylan was the dusky preacher Friday, Nelson was the campfire light. At 92, he's still quintessentially American, our real-life bald eagle. After seeing him live in the tenth year of what has become outlaw music's most beloved festival, it's hard to argue with that. Billed as 'Willie Nelson & Family,' the stage lit up in red and orange glow, an enormous American flag hanging behind them. Nelson, seated with Trigger — his trusty, long worn-in acoustic guitar — was surrounded by his literal family. He opened with 'Whiskey River' and the Bowl erupted. Nelson didn't pull any tricks, just classic after classic, performed with joy and clarity. His set included hits he wrote or popularized with friends: 'Workin' Man Blues' (Merle Haggard), 'Good Hearted Woman' (Waylon Jennings), and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' (Kris Kristofferson). Unlike Dylan, Nelson occasionally chatted with the crowd, giving intros to songs and memories of old friends. Standouts included a rollicking 'Bloody Mary Morning' (with the audience cheering for its LA name-drop), a crowd singalong to 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,' and tender and funny renditions of '(Die When I'm High) Halfway to Heaven' and 'Everything is Bullshit,' both written by Nelson's youngest son Micah, who performs under the moniker Particle Kid. The latter was especially entertaining, with the younger Nelson, who does a near perfect impression of his dad's voice, injecting cat meows while the older Nelson scatted 'bullshit' throughout the choruses—smiling like your grandpa who knows that he's in trouble for saying something naughty. Starting just before 10 p.m., Nelson never seemed tired. He smiled, nodded, and sang like he still meant every word. The evening ended with most of the Outlaw Fest crew coming back on stage together (except Dylan, who was maybe asleep), performing with Nelson to close the night by covering the timeless 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?' and 'I'll Fly Away.' Nelson then gave his farewells and exited stage right as the rest of the gang played him off with Hank Williams's 'I Saw the Light.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025 Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More
Los Angeles Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The 9 best moments from Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl
For the second time in less than a year, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan played the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, bringing together two legends of American song on one stage. The concert — actually Nelson's third recent visit to the Bowl after his 90th-birthday bash in 2023 — was part of the annual traveling Outlaw Music Festival, which will keep Nelson, now 92, and Dylan, who'll turn 84 next week, on the road through mid-September. Here are nine highlights from the show: 1. Last year's Outlaw tour stopped at the Bowl in late July, which at that time meant Nelson didn't have to ward off the chilly May gray that inevitably settles after dark over the Cahuenga Pass. Here, a day after reportedly suffering from a cold in Chula Vista, Nelson kept warm in a stylish black puffer jacket to go with his signature red bandanna. 2. John Stamos played percussion in Nelson's six-man band Friday — a somewhat lower-key role than the prominent guitar-and-vocals spot he often holds down these days in Mike Love's touring Beach Boys. Yet the TV star looked pleased as punch to be back there, shaking a shaker as Nelson opened his set, as always, with 'Whiskey River.' Also on hand, filling in for Nelson's son Lukas was singer-guitarist Waylon Payne, who sang lead in a moving version of Kris Kristofferson's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' — the folk-soul masterpiece made a hit in 1970 by Payne's mother, the late Sammi Smith. 3. My favorite of Nelson's styles to hear him do at this point in his career, with a voice and a soloing hand as free as they've ever been, is the spectral country-jazz mode of 'Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground' and 'Always on My Mind,' which gave him a pair of No. 1 country hits between March 1981 and May 1982. On Friday, he nailed high notes you might not have expected him to in the former and used the latter to show off the rhythmic daring of his line readings. Both were achingly beautiful. 4. Nelson didn't perform anything from his latest album, 'Oh What a Beautiful World,' which came out last month and collects his interpretations of a dozen Rodney Crowell tunes. (By some counts, it's Nelson's 77th solo studio LP — and the 15th he's dropped since 2015.) He did, however, do a cut from his second-most-recent effort: a stately rendition of Tom Waits' 'Last Leaf,' in which he rhymes 'They say I got staying power' with 'I've been here since Eisenhower.' In fact, Nelson's been here since FDR. 5. The big event in Dylanology between last year's Outlaw tour and this year's was, of course, James Mangold's Oscar-nominated biopic, 'A Complete Unknown,' which inspired a widespread resurgence of interest in Dylan's music — particularly the early stuff Timothée Chalamet performs in the movie. Perhaps that's why Dylan is singing 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' on the road again for the first time in six years, including at the Bowl, where he gave the song a jaunty rockabilly vibe. (Anyone wondering why Chalamet wasn't at Friday's gig clearly hasn't seen the TikToks of him wilding out after his beloved Knicks defeated the Celtics at New York's Madison Square Garden.) 6. A rare-ish bit of stage banter from His Bobness, directed toward an audience member near the front row: 'What are you eating down there? What is it?' 7. The whole point of going to see Dylan play is to be delighted — or to be outraged, or baffled — by his determination to reinvent songs so deeply etched into the history of rock music. Yet I was still thrilled by how radically he made over some of his classics here: 'Desolation Row' was bright and frisky, while a sultry 'All Along the Watchtower' sounded like Dire Straits doing '80s R&B. 8. In addition to Nelson and Dylan, Outlaw's West Coast leg also features two younger roots-music acts in Billy Strings and Sierra Hull. (Later in the summer, the tour will pick up the likes of Nathaniel Rateliff, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee and Wilco, depending on the city.) Strings, who's been bringing bluegrass to arenas lately — and whose tattooed arms meshed seamlessly with the sleeves of his tie-dyed T-shirt — sang 'California Sober,' which he recorded in 2023 as a duet with Nelson, and offered a haunting take on 'Summertime' from 'Porgy and Bess.' 9. A former child prodigy on the mandolin, Hull opened the evening flexing her Berklee-trained chops in a series of lickety-split bluegrass numbers that got early arrivers whistling with approval. But she also showed off a winsome pop sensibility in originals like 'Muddy Water' and 'Spitfire' — about 'my spitfire granny back in Tennessee,' she said — and in a yearning cover of 'Mad World' by Tears for Fears.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
L.A. Weekend Guide: Pepperland at the Wallis, World Dog Day, celebrating Pride in LB and at the Beverly Center
Every Thursday, Los Angeles magazine curates a list of the best events in and around Los Angeles. Craft a great last-minute schedule with our Weekend Guide to L.A., and don't forget to sign up to have the guide delivered to your inbox every week by clicking at The Wallis — May 16-18Choreographer Mark Morris presents his tribute to the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with this colorful production filled with dynamic dance and live chamber musical accompaniment. and exhibits at Southern Guild — opening May 16 Queer identity is celebrated in these two powerful exhibits. Muholi's photographic project documents Black lesbian, bisexual and queer women as well as trans and gender non-conforming people in South Africa and beyond. Heaven questions social failure in advocacy for the LGBTQIA+ community and hope for the future. Outlaw Music Festival at the Hollywood Bowl — May 16Willie Nelson and his musical family are joined by Bob Dylan, Billy Strings and Sierra Hall for this sure to be epic country, folk and blues extravaganza at the Bowl. Day of Black Docs— May 16-17Back for its 18th year in L.A., Day of Black Docs celebrates Black documentaries and the visionaries on screen and behind the lens. Four screenings reflect Black influence in music and entertainment. The event is also a fundraiser for Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers (BADWest), the arts organization who puts on the event. Paris Barclay will do a Q&A after the screening of his film, Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It. OUTLOUD presents Pride @the Bev — May 17Pride month is this June, but an array of events are happening before, like this audacious afternoon kiki at the beloved shopping center. Giveaways, activations and drag performances from Onya Nurve, Arrietty, Kori King, Suzie Toot take place 1–4 p.m. in the Grand Court. Tickets are $10 all proceeds benefiting It Gets Better, the L.A. nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ youth. Vendors, live music, raffles, and activities for dog lovers are just some of the pawsome features of this 8th annual event from the City of West Hollywood and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Lisa Vanderpump. Considered a Generation X-geared alternative to Coachella, the flashback flaired music fest features an array of dark dance, goth and new wave artists including New Order, Nick Cave, The Go-Go's, Devo, Garbage, Madness, She Wants Revenge and more. Read our Cruel World feature story . The first major Pride event of the season, this year's theme l'The Power of Community' drives the amusements and activities at the 42nd annual event. Read more about the event HERE.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Willie Nelson setlist 2025: Outlaw Music Festival songs at Phoenix tour launch
Willie Nelson is 92 years old and still headlining festival tours. The Outlaw Country legend launched a tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of his Outlaw Music Festival in Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13, with special guests Bob Dylan, Billy Strings, Sierra Hull and Lily Meola, treating fans at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre to a hit-filled overview of his iconic catalog. The 2025 tour is the biggest Outlaw tour to date with 35 stops across 22 states with a rotating cast of special guests as its rolls on from city to city. Guests include Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Sheryl Crow, Turnpike Troubadours, the Avett Brothers, Wilco, the Red Clay Strays, Lake Street Dive, Waxahatchee, Charles Wesley Godwin, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Trampled By Turtles, the Mavericks and more. When Waylon met Willie: How one night in Tempe sparked an outlaw country revolution Here's Willie Nelson's Outlaw Tour 2025 setlist from opening night at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, as shared online by fans who attended the concert: 'Whiskey River' 'Still Is Still Moving to Me' 'Bloody Mary Morning' 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' "Texas Flood" 'Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground' 'On the Road Again' "Help Me Make It Through the Night" 'Always on My Mind' 'Georgia on My Mind' 'I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train' 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' 'Last Leaf' 'Just Breathe" Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more. He did the same in Pittsburgh for more than a decade. Follow him on X and Instagram @edmasley and on Facebook as Ed Masley. Email him at This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Willie Nelson Outlaw Tour 2025 setlist on Night 1 in Phoenix
Miami Herald
13-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Amaze to Provide Merchandising Services as an Official Sponsor of the Outlaw Music Festival Tour 2025
Amaze Brings Premium Merch and Digital Engagement to the Iconic Tour NEWPORT BEACH, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 13, 2025 / As the Outlaw Music Festival celebrates its milestone 10th anniversary, Amaze Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American:AMZE) ("Amaze" or the "Company"), a global leader in creator-powered commerce, is joining the legendary tour as an Official Sponsor and Exclusive Branded Merchandise Partner. Through this collaboration, Amaze will provide official Outlaw Music Festival merchandise available on-tour as well as online, engaging passionate fans at one of the most iconic live music events in the country. With nearly half a million fans expected to attend in person, Amaze will facilitate the production and delivery of exclusive tour apparel and merchandise available for sale throughout the duration of the festival. Amaze's presence will also be showcased across the Outlaw Music Festival's official website, select social and email campaigns, IMAG screen branding, and VIP gift packs. "Our partnership with the Outlaw Music Festival is an opportunity to provide fans with premium merchandise and potential new ways to commemorate their show experience," said Aaron Day, CEO of Amaze. "The Outlaw Music Festival is a celebration of community found through music, and we are looking forward to providing opportunities for fans to further connect with the festival experience." On-site during the tour, Amaze and the Outlaw Music Festival will also highlight and promote a private-label wine. Leveraging Fresh Vine Wine's Napa Valley, California sourced premium grapes and direct-to-consumer fulfillment capabilities, Amaze and the Outlaw Music Festival are co-developing a limited-edition 10th anniversary premium red wine label, honoring the spirit and legacy of the festival's milestone 10th anniversary in a distinctive and memorable way. As Amaze continues to grow, this partnership reflects the work that defines the Company's path forward-creating real-world experiences that bring fans closer to the moments and communities they love. This partnership is another meaningful milestone in Amaze's journey to support live event experiences for artists and attendees alike. The 2025 Outlaw Music Festival kicks off May 13 in Phoenix, AZ, and continues through September, with stops at some of the most legendary venues in the country. For investor information, visit IR@ For press inquiries, please contact PR@ About Amaze:Amaze Software, Inc. is an end-to-end, creator-powered commerce platform offering tools for seamless product creation, advanced e-commerce solutions, and scalable managed services. By empowering anyone to "sell anything, anywhere," Amaze enables creators to tell their stories, cultivate deeper audience connections, and generate sustainable income through shoppable, authentic experiences. Discover more at About Outlaw Music Festival:The Outlaw Music Festival proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of unforgettable performances and camaraderie among music luminaries and fans alike. Since its 2016 inception in Scranton, PA, the festival has become a hallmark of authentic Americana, developing into one of North America's largest annual touring franchises. 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