Bob Dylan vs. the ChiCom - Hit & Run – Arts & Entertainment

reason.com — Here's a Reason response to the last story I posted about the Dylan concert: "It would really be news if he had played 'Blowin' or ''Times'--either of them. To have played both would probably have been a Dylan moment as unusual as opening with 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.' And 'Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' is arguably as 'protesty' in its hard-to-parse poetical way as 'Desolation Row,' and Dylan played that one in China."

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