{"id":355762,"date":"2026-06-30T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355762\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:07:16","slug":"bob-dylan-mysteriously-splits-with-two-tour-guitarists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355762\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Mysteriously Splits With Two Tour Guitarists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan has been enjoying his latest tour leg, busting out live rarities like “Baby, Won\u2019t You Be My Baby<\/a>” and “I Shall Be Released<\/a>,” and frequently performing with his face obscured by the hood of a North Face jacket. But something is happening with his band and we don’t know what it is.<\/p>\n

Guitarist Doug Lancio, who replaced Charlie Sexton in Dylan’s band in 2021, was absent at the June 17 show in Santa Barbara, CA, replaced by jazz virtuoso Julian Lage<\/a>, and it’s been that way ever since. Dylan said nothing the entire night at that show, and The Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported in a review a few days later that a rep “had no word on whether Lage was a permanent addition to the band.” Incidentally, that was one of this month’s shows where Dylan played the aforementioned “I Shall Be Released” \u2014 now a part of his set for the first time in 18 years.<\/p>\n

On June 24 in Tucson, AZ, Dylan even played some guitar himself \u2014 a rarity these days \u2014 when he opened with “Watching The River Flow.” On Saturday (June 27), guitarist Bob Britt (who had been with Dylan since 2019) posted<\/a> “Sayonara Bobby” on Facebook with an image of a flight plan from Austin, TX to Nashville, TN, where he lives. In case it wasn’t clear, Britt responded to a commenter’s “Ruh roh” with “I quit.”<\/p>\n

Dylan’s Long Hot Summer Tour ’26 is scheduled to hit Austin’s Moody Amphitheater tonight. Band members TBD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan has been enjoying his latest tour leg, busting out live rarities like “Baby, Won\u2019t You Be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-355762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}