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Bob moves in mysterious ways, but things seem particularly unusual:
Dylan announces a multi-year tour around one album and then delivers exactly that (with a wacky summer tour as intermission).
After the tour is completed, a single show is announced for 2025 using the same (now date-range-free) tour name.
That single show is in Tulsa OK, a place that has become a spiritual home via The Bob Dylan Center (which offers a ‘members only presale’).
Tulsa is not a place tours usually start (although it wasn’t claimed as such).
Initially, fans were excited that touring was resuming. We all know that Dylan’s touring days are numbered and many have assumed or speculated that those last London shows late last year were the swan song.
Then another thought started creeping into people’s heads.
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