Bob Dylan performed on television last night in tribute to Martin Scorsese, who was being feted by the Critics’ Choice Awards for his music documentary work. In the performance that followed an introduction by George Harrison’s widow, Olivia, Dylan didn’t pluck an obviously reverent cut from his oeuvre, however, opting to treat the No Direction Home director and room full of Hollywood A-listers to 1983 rarity “Blind Willie McTell” — perhaps alluding to Scorsese’s The Blues series. Watch the poet laureate of rock, whose damaged voice and unpredictable phrasing still pulls through for old blues-style tunes, baffle the crowd above.
