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In the summer of 2024, Brittney Spencer played a series of amphitheater shows with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Bob Dylan on the Outlaw Music Festival Tour. A huge opportunity for the country singer-songwriter – even if she assumed Never even seeing Dylan, let alone speaking to him.
But one evening he suddenly found himself standing in front of her: Dylan had found his way into her dressing room after her show. “[Er] told me he really liked my songs,” Spencer wrote on Instagram as she announced four concert dates this summer, opening for Dylan and Jimmie Vaughan. “He was so detailed I couldn’t believe it. He asked me for my number. I wrote it on a napkin and gave it to him. He didn’t call lol. I think this is his way of calling – and I answer on the first ring.” (In an Instagram video that Spencer posted along with the announcement, Dylan can be seen at the side of the stage watching her play, unnervingly resembling a Sith Lord.)
Spencer opens Dylan’s shows in mid-July in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and Gilford, New Hampshire. These dates are part of a series of East Coast dates Dylan has just added to his already busy US summer tour schedule. The tour begins June 4th in Troutdale, Oregon and ends July 25th in Vienna, Virginia. If you don’t want to wait that long, you can catch Dylan in more remote southern cities throughout the rest of April – including Macon, Georgia; Dothan, Ala.; and Tyler, Texas.
Dylan’s current set
His current set includes six songs from his 2020 album “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” as well as older tracks like “Love Sick,” “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Man in the Long Black Coat” and “Every Grain of Sand.”
Spencer, in turn, opens Maren Morris’s show with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks on July 19 in Morrison, Colorado. Her debut album, “My Stupid Life,” was released in 2024. In recent years, she has toured with Jason Isbell and performed at both the CMA Awards and the ACM Awards.
