Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticIn paying tribute to Bob Dylan at a concert held during the opening festivities for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Elvis Costello sang an epic, rip-roaring “Like a Rolling Stone,” apparently the first time he’s covered the signature song of his most obvious influence in full in concert.
But earlier in the set Costello also did a lesser-known balladic chestnut from the Dylan catalog: “I Threw It All Away.” Of course, that title was the very opposite of the message being sent out by the new museum.
To our benefit, as it turns out, Dylan may really not have thrown much of anything away.The Center, which had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, is curated from an archive that contains about 100,000 artifacts, only a tiny percentage of which are on display to the public, with the rest reserved for researchers and scholars or to be put out later as the museum rotates some of its exhibits.
Even if it represents just the tip of the iceberg of the collection that Dylan sold to the George Kaiser Family Foundation, with an exhibit space of 29,000 square feet now open to the public, it’s a hell of a tip.
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