Bob Dylan, who plays Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida on March 5-6, 2024. Credit: Photo by Pete Souza/The White House

Credit: Photo by Pete Souza/The White House

Bob Dylan is turning 78 years old next Friday, and if you’ve ever wanted to hear the folk icon's songs played the way you remember them on the records, then you might want to go to Skipper’s Smokehouse for this Hump Day birthday celebration featuring a trio of local favorites.

Bob Dylan Birthday Bash w/Kettle of Fish/Passerine/Grant Peeples/Steve Arvey. Wed., May 22, 7 p.m.. $15. Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa. skipperssmokehouse.com.

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This article appears in May 16-23, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...