On This Day in Dylan History

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Featured performance

May 1, 1980

1. When You Gonna Wake Up?
2. Man Gave Names to All the Animals
3. Precious Angel
4. Slow Train
5. Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
6. Solid Rock
7. Saving Grace
8. What Can I Do for You?
9. Saved
10. In the Garden
11. Pressing On
12. Are You Ready?
13. Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody
14. Cover Down, Break Through (last song)

Also played on this date

• May 1, 1960 — Home of Karen Wallace — St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
• May 1, 1961 — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• May 1, 1976 — Reed Green Coliseum — Hattiesburg, MS
• May 1, 2001 — Asheville Civic Center — Asheville, North Carolina, United States
• May 1, 2019 — Coliseu do Porto — Porto, Porto, Portugal
• May 1, 1991 — Township Auditorium — Columbia, South Carolina, United States
• May 1, 1992 — Pauline Davis Pavilion — Red Bluff, California, United States
• May 1, 2009 — Echo Arena — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
• May 1, 2013 — Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• May 1, 2026 — Abilene Auditorium — Abilene, Texas, United States
• May 1, 1994 — Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri — Columbia, Missouri, United States
• May 1, 1996 — Mid-Hudson Civic Center — Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
• May 1, 1997 — Vanderburgh Auditorium — Evansville, Indiana, United States
• May 1, 1965 — Odeon Theatre — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
• May 1, 1999 — Silvretta Arena — Ischgl, Tyrol, Austria
• May 1, 1966 — KB Hallen — Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
• May 1, 1959 — Home of Ric Kangas — Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
• May 1, 1969 — The Johnny Cash Show — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• May 1, 1962 — Gerde's Folk City — New York, New York, United States