Bob Dylan Loses Second Guitarist in Two Weeks
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- Bob Britt quit Dylan's touring band via a Facebook post reading "Sayonara Bobby," accompanied by an image of a flight from Austin to Nashville; he had been a member of Dylan's band since 2019.
- The departure follows Doug Lancio vanishing from the tour roughly two weeks earlier, with jazz guitarist Julian Lage having stepped in as a fill-in replacement.
- Julian Lage has a conflicting June 29 performance booked at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, leaving him unavailable for Dylan's next show at Austin's Moody Amphitheater.
- The only publicly known remaining members of Dylan's band are longtime bassist Tony Garnier and drummer Anton Fig, with no second guitarist confirmed.
- Since pedal steel player Bucky Baxter joined the band in 1992, Dylan has not performed with a lineup of just one guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer — a configuration from the earliest Never Ending Tour days.
- Setlists have remained largely static, though a recent shock performance of the Basement Tapes deep cut "Baby, Won't You Be Me Baby" shattered the record for longest gap between a song's recording and its live debut.
Why it matters: With Britt gone and Lage booked elsewhere, Dylan may take the Austin stage backed by just Garnier and Fig — a stripped-down format the band hasn't used since before Bucky Baxter arrived in 1992. The article notes the timing left Dylan little opportunity to hire a second new guitarist, raising the prospect of either Lancio returning or an entirely unknown player debuting at the Moody Amphitheater.
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