{"id":517918,"date":"2026-06-30T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:53:07","slug":"bob-dylans-former-guitarist-addresses-his-recent-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517918\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan\u2019s Former Guitarist Addresses His Recent Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Britt, the guitarist who was formerly part of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/bob-dylan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Dylan<\/a>\u2019s live band, has addressed his recent exit.<\/p>\n<p>On June 27, Britt, who had served as Dylan\u2019s acoustic guitar player since 2019, posted a message on social media that said \u201cSayonara Bobby\u201d and featured the image of a plane route from Austin to Nashville. Fans quickly assumed this meant Britt was out of the band. His post was later taken down, but not before screenshots were shared in Dylan-related forums all over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Britt has issued his first direct statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently there are quite a few threads out there with people speculating about my departure from the Bob tour,\u201d he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bob.britt.12\/posts\/pfbid02ZrXU1uxFbdrJQgCKoSqDNn9onBThvspat1ne2dmkdQVsnzcLvXtbGhFA2GGkmTcCl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019d like to clear it up. I was not fired but left of my own accord for reasons I would prefer to keep private. I will miss my band mates and crew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/bob-dylan-band-lineup-change-guitarists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Dylan Makes Surprising Changes to Live Band Mid-Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britt noted that he was \u201clooking forward to getting back to doing sessions,\u201d while leaving the door open somewhat regarding touring. \u201cWe will see what the future holds,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMeanwhile, I have some flower beds to weed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who Is Bob Dylan\u2019s New Guitarist?<\/p>\n<p>Tonight (June 29), Dylan played his first show since Britt\u2019s departure, a performance at the Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas. The guitarist was replaced by Joel Paterson, an acclaimed jazz and blues musician out of Chicago. There has been no official confirmation that Paterson is now a permanent fixture in Dylan&#8217;s band.<\/p>\n<p>Britt isn\u2019t the only one of Dylan\u2019s guitarists to recently leave. Earlier this month, electric guitarist Doug Lancio also quietly departed the band. He was replaced at several gigs by popular jazz guitarist Julian Lage, however Lage seems to have only been a temporary stop-gap (he did not perform\u00a0at tonight&#8217;s Austin gig).<\/p>\n<p>Bob Dylan Albums Ranked<\/p>\n<p>Through ups and downs, and more comebacks than just about anyone in rock history, the singer-songwriter&#8217;s catalog has something for just about everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Michael Gallucci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Britt, the guitarist who was formerly part of Bob Dylan\u2019s live band, has addressed his recent exit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-517918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}