Bingo with Bob

A new Dylan tour starts in three days which means a new Dylan Pool starts in three days. If you're not familiar it's simple: each Dylan song is given a number of points based on how likely it is to be played -- Highway 61 Revisited, 1 point. Dear Landlord, 18 points -- and they are divided into groups. You pick one song from each group and if he plays it you get the points. At the end of the tour there are prizes for the highest totals and lots of other prizes for other random things.

It's fun. I always do appallingly, I pick too much on sentiment. I took part in the first one back in 2001 and it has grown heaps since then. Think you've got about three days to sign up.

My picks are over the fold. I'm "dotball" at the pool, look me up.


Sing Me Back Home is a little indulgence since half the tour he will be appearing with Merle Haggard and the Strangers.

Song Group 1: Tomorrow is a Long Time (17 points)
Song Group 2: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (14 points)
Song Group 3: Shooting Star (9 points)
Song Group 4: The Times They Are A-Changin' (4 points)
Song Group 5: Highway 61 Revisited (1 point)
Song Group 6: The Wicked Messenger (12 points)
Song Group 7: Down Along the Cove (4 points)
Song Group 8: Desolation Row (10 points)
Song Group 9: High Water (For Charley Patton) (4 points)
Song Group 10: Every Grain of Sand (9 points)
Song Group 11: Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (8 points)
Song Group 12: Drifter's Escape (4 points)
Song Group 13: Masters of War (6 points)
Song Group 14: Man in the Long Black Coat (10 points)
Song Group 15: Simple Twist of Fate (16 points)
Song Group 16: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (3 points)
Song Group 17: Lay, Lady, Lay (3 points)
Song Group 18: Blowin' in the Wind (14 points)
Song Group 19: Sing Me Back Home (18 points)
Song Group 20: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (3 points)
Song Group 21: Summer Days (1 point)
Song Group 22: Pancho and Lefty (18 points)
Album Group 1: Blonde on Blonde (1 point per song)
Album Group 2: Nashville Skyline (1 point per song)
Album Group 3: Oh Mercy (4 points per song)