{"id":500116,"date":"2026-06-28T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500116\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:37:10","slug":"bob-dylan-makes-changes-to-live-band-as-two-long-serving-guitarists-step-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500116\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan makes changes to live band as two long-serving guitarists step away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan<\/a>\u00a0appears to be\u00a0making changes to his live band, with two of his long-serving guitarists\u00a0seemingly stepping\u00a0away from the road.<\/p>\n

On Sunday (June 28), acoustic guitarist Bob Britt was reported to have left Dylan\u2019s touring band after sharing a brief social media post that was later\u00a0deleted.<\/p>\n

According to screenshots circulated by Dylan fans online, Britt posted \u201cSayonara Bobby\u201d alongside an image showing a flight route from Austin, Texas to Nashville during a day off from the tour. In a later comment, he\u00a0reportedly wrote: \u201cI quit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britt has played with Dylan since 2019, and has been a regular presence during the ongoing \u2018Rough\u00a0And\u00a0Rowdy Ways\u2019 tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dylan has not publicly commented on Britt\u2019s\u00a0apparent\u00a0departure.<\/p>\n

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The news follows another recent change in Dylan\u2019s band, after electric guitarist Doug Lancio was replaced on stage by acclaimed jazz guitarist Julian Lage.<\/p>\n

Lancio, who had been part of Dylan\u2019s touring band since 2021, was absent from the singer-songwriter\u2019s June 17 show at the Santa Barbara Bowl. A review by the\u00a0Los Angeles Times <\/a>noted that Lage had taken his place on stage, while a spokesperson for Dylan said they had \u201cno word\u201d on whether Lage was a permanent addition to the band.<\/p>\n

Lage has since appeared at multiple Dylan shows, although it\u00a0remains\u00a0unclear whether he is filling in temporarily or joining the line-up more permanently.<\/p>\n

Dylan\u2019s current US run is due to continue tomorrow night (June 29) at Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas, before wrapping in Nashville on August 1.\u00a0Find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tour has already seen Dylan return to a number of rarely played songs.\u00a0Earlier this month,\u00a0he performed \u2018I Shall Be Released\u2019 for the first time in 18 years<\/a> at Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene, Oregon, after also reviving \u2018You\u00a0Ain\u2019t\u00a0Goin\u2019 Nowhere\u2019<\/a>\u00a0near Seattle for the first time since 2012.<\/p>\n

The tour follows a wave of renewed attention\u00a0in Dylan thanks to\u00a0A Complete Unknown<\/a>, the\u00a0Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>-starring biopic\u00a0about\u00a0the artist\u2019s\u00a0early years in New York and his move from folk to electric music.<\/p>\n

In a four-star review<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0wrote that Chalamet \u201csings and plays his way into Oscars contention with a career-best\u201d, adding that the film smartly focused on a precise period of Dylan\u2019s life rather than attempting to cover the whole story.<\/p>\n

Dylan also recently shared his thoughts on ageing, saying that\u00a0one of the benefits of getting older is that \u201cyou outlive the clocks that have been chasing you\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan\u00a0appears to be\u00a0making changes to his live band, with two of his long-serving guitarists\u00a0seemingly stepping\u00a0away from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,1629],"class_list":["post-500116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}