Concert: Bob Dylan and Norah Jones live in Seattle 7/16/2005

Excerpt from the Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Concert at Bennaroya Hall in Seattle on 7/16/2005 MC’ed by Bill Maher. Norah Jones guests on I Shall Be released. It’s a short and sweet 50 minute set.

Set List:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
3. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
6. Blind Willie McTell
7. Watching The River Flow
8. Ballad Of A Thin Man
9. I Shall Be Released (with Norah Jones on vocals)

Band Members:
Bob Dylan – keyboard, harp
Stu Kimball – lead guitar
Denny Freeman – guitar
Donnie Herron – banjo, pedal steel
Tony Garnier – bass
George Recile – drums

Dylan, Jones to headline exclusive Amazon show

Originally published June 16, 2005 at 12:00 am Updated June 16, 2005 at 1:09 pm

Amazon.com will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a present to employees — an exclusive concert featuring Bob Dylan, Norah Jones and political satirist Bill Maher. The event will take place in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall on July 16.

No tickets will be sold to the public, but the company says it will be broadcast live on the Internet (Amazon.com/showofthanks), beginning at 5 p.m.

It’s not uncommon for high-profile artists, even one as closely associated with the counter-culture as Dylan, to appear at corporate events, according to Gary Bongiovanni of the concert trade magazine Pollstar. “The stigma that used to be associated with these corporate gigs seems to be just about gone now,” he said. “The artist’s motivation for doing this is usually money. They pay extremely well. … (Dylan’s) doing casinos and all kinds of things now. Bob hasn’t been as selective in his choices as he would have been even 10 years ago, or as any artist would have been 10 years ago.”

Dylan is the top-selling living male recording artist on Amazon, and Jones is the top-selling female artist.

-Seattle Times