Columbia Records to Premiere Unique Commercial Spot Promoting Bob Dylan's Forthcoming "Love and Theft" Album.

Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001

Artist's Just-Announced Fall U.S. Tour Will Run

October 5 Through November 24

With Bob Dylan's Love And Theft, one of the most anticipated music releases of the year, set to arrive in stores on Tuesday, September 11, Columbia Records has taken the unusual step of creating a specially-crafted television commercial, featuring Bob Dylan in a key role, to promote the album.

The commercial will begin airing on television on Monday, September 3. A special internet version of the spot will be available for download beginning Wednesday, August 29, at 12am, EDT (Tuesday, August 28, 9pm, PDT) exclusively on BobDylan.com.

Set to the music of "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum," the lead-off track of Love And Theft, the commercial depicts a poker game in which a mysterious cast of characters -- including those played by Bob Dylan and legendary card master Ricky Jay -- plot and scheme their way through a crucial hand. Lust corrupts, tempers rage and chips fly in the fast-paced spot lensed by award-winning commercial director Kinka Usher.

The forthcoming release of Love And Theft marks another milestone in the career of one of the world's most extraordinary artists, and comes in the midst of one of Bob Dylan's most creative and prolific periods. In only four years since 1997's release of the platinum Time Out Of Mind -- one of the artist's biggest-selling and most critically acclaimed albums, it earned three Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year -- Bob Dylan has performed nearly 450 concerts around the world. He also wrote and recorded "Things Have Changed," featured in the film "Wonder Boys," for which he received both the Academy Award and Golden Globe earlier this year.

Bob Dylan's just-announced Fall Tour will encompass 34 arena dates across the U.S., beginning with an October 5 show in Spokane, Washington, at the Spokane Arena, and concluding on November 24 at the Fleet Center in Boston. The full schedule of tour dates is as follows:

10/5  -- Spokane Arena -- Spokane, Washington
10/6  -- Key Arena -- Seattle, Washington
10/7  -- OSU Gill Coliseum -- Corvallis, Oregon
10/9  -- Jackson County Expo Hall -- Medford, Oregon
10/10 -- Memorial Auditorium -- Sacramento, California
10/12 -- Compaq Center -- San Jose, California
10/13 -- Bill Graham Civic Center -- San Francisco, California
10/14 -- UCSB Events Center -- Santa Barbara, California
10/17 -- UCSD Rimac Arena -- San Diego, California
10/19 -- Staples Center -- Los Angeles, California
10/21 -- Denver Coliseum -- Denver, Colorado
10/23 -- Orpheum Theater -- Sioux City, Iowa
10/24 -- La Crosse Center Arena -- La Crosse, Wisconsin
10/25 -- Xcel Energy Center -- St. Paul, Minnesota
10/27 -- United Center -- Chicago, Illinois
10/28 -- US Cellular Center -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10/30 -- Brown County Arena -- Green Bay, Wisconsin
10/31 -- UW Kohl Center Arena -- Madison, Wisconsin
11/2  -- ISU Hulman Center -- Terre Haute, Indiana
11/3  -- Municipal Auditorium -- Nashville, Tennessee
11/4  -- Xavier University Cintas Center -- Cincinnati, Ohio
11/6  -- Van Andel Arena -- Grand Rapids, Michigan
11/8  -- Air Canada Centre -- Toronto, Ontario
11/9  -- Cobo Arena -- Detroit, Michigan
11/10 -- Nationwide Arena -- Columbus, Ohio
11/11 -- PSU Bryce Jordan Arena -- State College, Pennsylvania
11/13 -- War Memorial at Oncenter -- Syracuse, New York
11/15 -- MCI Center -- Washington, DC
11/17 -- First Union Spectrum -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11/19 -- Madison Square Garden -- New York, New York
11/21 -- Verizon Wireless Arena -- Manchester, New Hampshire
11/23 -- Cumberland County Civic Center -- Portland, Maine
11/24 -- Fleet Center -- Boston, Massachusetts

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