Bob Dylan Tour with Mark Knopfler 2012

Setlists from this tour included a number of new songs from the album, such as "Redbud Tree", "Haul Away", "Privateering", "Miss You Blues", "Corned Beef City", "Yon Two Crows", and "I Used to Could".

[Note 1] Knopfler's tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Richard Bennett (guitar), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Jim Cox (piano, organ, accordion), Michael McGoldrick (whistles, uilleann pipes), John McCusker (violin, cittern), Glenn Worf (bass), and Ian Thomas (drums).

The legendary axe man's guitar skills were as impeccable as ever, and he wove his way through a dozen songs with inimitable style and a disconcerting ease.

Knopfler was calm and collected, laying into his folky and bluesy grooves slow and steady—the stripped down guitar, drums and standup bass combo on Song for Sonny Liston, the shuffle and stomp of Marbletown, ending in an extended Celtic flute-and-fiddle jam—and it all sounded excellent thanks to expert hands on the board at the back of the room.

[6]In his review for Gig City, Wayne Arthurson was equally impressed with Knopfler and his band, noting it was probably the first time "the entire crowd were in their seats to catch an opening act.