Bob Dylan MTV Unplugged

• 1. Tombstone Blue
• 2. Shooting Star
• 3. All Along The Watchtower
• 4. The Times They Are A-Changin'
• 5. John Brown
• 6. Desolation Row
• 7. Rainy Day Women #12 & 3
• 8. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
• 9. Dignity
• 10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
• 11. Like A Rolling Stone
• 12. With God On Our Side

RIP MTV; the recently folded TV network's long-running Unplugged series ran from 1989, and pioneered the same intimate-room live format that BBC Live Lounge, Jools Holland, and Tiny Desk later overtook. Alongside Nirvana, REM and Lauryn Hill, Bob Dylan's Unplugged lies among its highest-grossing segments, and also reignited his own ratings; the furor around Oh Mercy had faded, and his early-90s studio albums had split opinion. The Unplugged invitation meant to lean on acoustic nostalgia, but by now we were well into electric Dylan, thus still displeasing folksters but ratifying Dylan as a valiant, times-they-are-a-changing artist. Alongside that song, two nights in New York would also hear performance-reframed standards such as 'Like A Rolling Stone': Dylan was done playing the heritage act.