John Waters is taking his love of Bob Dylan on the road with Dylan Revisited.
Well known for his acclaimed one-man John Lennon tribute show Through The Glass Onion, Waters now turns his attention to Dylan - singer, songwriter, musician and poet.
Waters will be performing and interpreting some of the great songs from the Bob Dylan songbook at Hurstville Entertainment Centre, on Friday, September 13.
When planning the Dylan show Waters insisted on one main criteria - a phenomenal band.
"The first thing I knew I wanted was a great band," Waters said. "A band that's a bit like the later bands that Dylan used, such as the band on Modern Times, recorded in 2006."
It means fans can expect a big sound - multiple guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and even violin.
Waters, who will do all the Dylan classics from Blowin' in the Wind to Like A Rolling Stone to Hurricane and Knocking on Heaven's Door, fondly remembers how Dylan's songs first affected him.
"Dylan got to me (or I got him) straight away - no filter," Waters said.
"I told my friends there was this guy in the states who picks an acoustic guitar and sings through his nose. I also heard him do a 'talking blues', and the hipness of that got me in."
Dylan's impact on popular culture cannot be disputed. Since his early releases in the 1960s, his music and songwriting have held a mirror to the changing political, cultural and social world we live in.
In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song".
Dylan first shot to prominence as a solo artist but Waters had a different vision for his show.
"I wanted to do the early Dylan material, which was just him and an acoustic guitar - songs like Blowin' in the Wind - but I wanted to do them as band songs," Waters said.
"That was important to me because I'm not the folky troubadour, and I don't particularly want to be. But I do love those songs, and I wanted to bring them repackaged."
- Tickets: hec.org.au