Bob Dylan didn't waste any time. Hospitalized recently for a potentially fatal heart infection, he's now out and already making concert plans. Dylan will resume his so-called Never-Ending Tour with a show on Aug. 16 at Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Mass.
"He's perfectly intent on doing a summer tour, which he indicated when he got out of the hospital," Elliot Mintz, a Dylan spokesman, said this week.Dylan, 56, is expected to recover completely from a fungal infection that caused inflammation in the sac around his heart.
"The doctors have told him to take three to four weeks off to relax," said Mintz. "I can't disclose where he is, but he's taking it easy."
Getting sick "is just about the only thing that could get Bob Dylan off the road," said Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, which performed a stadium tour with Dylan in the late 1980s. "Bob has been on the road seamlessly."
- Steve Morse