²At one of the late summer shows in 2002, there was suddenly another text: some highfalutin summary of his carreer: ‘The poet laureate of rock’n’roll. The voice of the promise of the 60s counterculture. The guy who forced folk into bed with rock, who donned makeup in the 70s and disappeared into a haze of substance abuse, who emerged to ‘find Jesus’, who was written off as a has-been by the end of the 80s, and who suddenly shifted gears and released some of the strongest music of his career beginning in the mid-90s.’ The indefatigable Dylan-Influence Search Squad quickly found this to be an exact quote from a newspaper article about the concert the day before. In the same article, Under the Red Sky from 1990 was called one of Dylan’s weakest albums, so when Dylan played the title song from this album, which has not been performed regularly since the mid-90s, at the same concert, it is difficult not to see the new ‘invitatory’ as a wry comment of some sort, on Dylan’s part. It stuck, however, and interspersed as it is with elements from the old introduction, it almost resembles the tropes of Medieval liturgy, where the original text is commented on or explained by textual additions.