Bob Dylan, Kinks and others reread by actor Bill Murray on tour

From film to music: Hollywood star Bill Murray has kicked off his US tour which sees him perform live with his Blood Brothers in covers of classic hits by Bob Dylan, the Kinks and more.

The actor and his blues band, with Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia, inaugurated the tour last January 3 at Thalia Hall in Chicago. Included in the setlist were covers of, among other things, Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone”, the Kinks’ “Tired Of Waiting”, as well as covers of Wilson Pikett’s “Midnight Hour” and Paul Butterfield’s “Born in Chicago”. Blues Band. The series of dates will continue at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco for two nights on January 29 and 30, before crossing North America with stops in Atlanta, Port Chester, New York City, Austin, West Des Moines and Saint Louis and conclude at The Louisville Palace in Louisville, Kentucky on October 4.

Murray had already surprised audiences as a singer in 2022, when he improvised a cover performance in Washington Square Park in New York, with renditions of “I Feel Pretty” from “West Side Story” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So” from “Porgy and Bess”, to celebrate the release of “New Worlds: The Cradle Of Civilization” in collaboration with cellist Jan Vogler.