The news isn’t that Bob Dylan is coming back to Maine to play another show. He’s been doing that for years now, so his May 17 concert at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston is no big deal.

But what’s particularly cool about the May 17 gig is that it’s the first night of his spring/summer tour, and one of only two U.S. dates on the tour – so far, anyway. No doubt he will add more shows on American soil later in the year, but stateside fans will have to wait at least until August for the chance to see Dylan anywhere close to home.

With that in mind, mystery swirls about the Lewiston gig. The Internet is buzzing about this show, as it does with all first-night shows on Dylan tours. What songs will he play? Who will be in the band? Will he play the guitar for more than a few songs, or will he spend most of the concert on the keyboards, as has been his custom in recent years?

I have my dream Dylan set list – it begins with “Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar” and ends with “I Shall Be Released” – but I want to know what you want to hear.

Send me an e-mail (BKeyes@pressherald.com) with your dream set list, or tell me the song or two you really wish he would play. Not than he reads my blog or anything, but you never know.

L.L. Bean just announced the lineup for its summer concert series. As usual, it's an impressive mix of performers.

April Verch, Scottish fiddle, June 14;

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, swing, June 21;

Martin Sexton, contemporary folk, June 28;

Toby Lightman, contemporary pop, July 4;

Daryl Hall, pop, July 5;

Kathy Mattea, acoustic country, July 12;

Portland Symphony Orchestra, classical, July 19;

Buddy Holly's Original Crickets, '50s rock 'n’ roll, July 26;

Brandi Carlisle, contemporary folk, Aug. 2;

Richie Havens, folk, Aug. 9;

The Jerry Douglas Band, contemporary bluegrass, Aug. 16;

John Hiatt and the Ageless Beauties, contemporary folk, Aug. 23;

Lonestar, Pop country, Aug. 30;

Keb' Mo', pop blues, Aug. 31.

I just got off the phone with Joan Baez, who performs March 24 at the Waterville Opera House.

She was in good spirit, and effusive in her praise for presidential candidate Barack Obama. The folk singer, who marks her 50th year in music this year, has never endorsed a candidate for president before, but felt compelled to get behind Obama.

She said the Illinois senator brings her back to the 1960s in terms of inspiration and spirit. Baez was at the forefront of America’s musical-activist movement in the '60s.

“It throws me so back into the civil rights movement. The things that he says, the ways he says them and the hope it produces are just irresistible,” she said.

Baez hopes Obama resists the temptation to allow his campaign to turn ugly and negative, but also feels that such a turn might be inevitable in light of Hillary Clinton’s big victories in the Tuesday primaries.

“I don’t know what happens next. I know the general talk is that he has to put his boxing gloves on and step on her neck, because she does all traditional nastiness. It will be interesting to see, because he is so intelligent, so eloquent and so elegant.”