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Christopher Rollason wrote:

Chrissie HynderCOs Live Homage to Bob Dylan rCo London, 26 December 2021

On the evening of Boxing Day 2021, Chrissie Hynde, best known as the
vocalist of the classic group the Pretenders, offered the world a
concert streamed from the Royal Opera House in London. It featured 17
songs, nine of them by Bob Dylan. The US-born, UK-resident singer
performed the same nine Dylan compositions as on her album Standing in
the Doorway released earlier this year, in the same order but with the
added spontaneity and immediacy that comes from live performance,
certainly when the artist gives it their all as Chrissie Hynde did that night:
https://chrissiehynde.veeps.com (at time of writing, stream available
till 2 January 2022)

The artistrCOs song selection for CD and concert reveals an in-depth knowledge of DylanrCOs work and an emphasis away from his better-known earlier work. The songs were, in order: rCyIn the SummertimerCO, rCyYourCOre A
Big Girl NowrCO, rCyStanding in the DoorwayrCO, rCySweetheart Like YourCO, rCyBlind
Willie McTellrCO, rCyLove Minus Zero/No LimitrCO, rCyDonrCOt Fall Apart on Me TonightrCO, rCyTomorrow is a Long TimerCO and rCyEvery Grain of SandrCO rCo thus,
two from the 60s, one from Blood on the Tracks (1975), all of five from
the Shot of Love/Infidels period (1981/83) and one from Time Out of Mind (1997).

The songs were performed in line with the original lyrics, with no
stanzas left out and, interestingly, with two divergences from DylanrCOs
own main album versions removed as compared with HynderCOs own CD. In rCyDonrCOt Fall Apart On Me TonightrCO, rCySaint James StreetrCO is restored from
from Infidels, whereas the CD had rCyNapoleon StreetrCO, as in DylanrCOs drafts of the song recently released on The Bootleg Series vol. 16; and
in rCySweetheart Like YourCO the first half of the second stanza, on the CD altered to restore lines (rCyYou know, conmen donrCOt need strangers rCarCO) that Dylan sings on the draft released on that same volume 16, is
changed back to what appeared on Infidels (rCyyou know I once knew a woman who looked like you rCarCO). For rCyEvery Grain of SandrCO, choosing from DylanrCOs alternate lines at the end she prefers rCyreality of manrCO, as on Shot of Love, to rCyperfect finished planrCO. Chrissie Hynde has thus done her homework: she has made her choices and shown herself to be
conversant with the history of the songs.

It is difficult to point up standout performances with a set of so
uniformly high a standard and a vocalist so very much inside the songs, articulating DylanrCOs words with such care. However, an elegiac rCyTomorrow is a Long TimerCO, a contemplative rCyEvery Grain of SandrCO and a doom-laden rCyBlind Willie McTellrCO were particularly impressive. HynderCOs choice of rCyEvery Grain of SandrCO to end her Dylan selection gels nicely with DylanrCOs own recourse to the same song as encore in his most recent tour setlist.

The remainder of the concert offered diverse material including
Pretenders numbers, notably two Ray Davies songs famously covered by the group, rCyStop Your SobbingrCO and rCyI Go To SleeprCO, and, as encore and in French, Charles TrenetrCOs rCyQue reste-t-il de nos amours?rCO. All were well performed, but it is a fair guess that most spectators will remember
this concert for the Dylan material. As Chrissie Hynde said from the
stage at one point, rCyitrCOs all in the writingrCO rCa

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Also on my blog at: https://rollason.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/chrissie-hyndes-live-homage-to-bob-dylan-london-26-december-2021/

Interesting.
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