Timothée Chalamet, whose portrayal of Bob Dylan just earned him his second Oscar nomination, served as both host and musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. It was Chalamet’s third time as host and first as musical guest, and he performed a medley of ‘Outlaw Blues’ and ‘Three Angels’ before returning to sing ‘Tomorrow Is a Long Time’. Chalamet was joined by a full band that featured James Blake on keyboard. Watch it happen below.
“You might not know the Bob Dylan songs I’m performing, but they’re my personal favorites,” Chalamet said in his opening monologue. The opening ‘Outlaw Blues’ is taken from Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan’s first to include electric guitar, while the gospel-inflected ‘Three Angels’ appeared on 1970’s New Morning. ‘Tomorrow Is a Long Time’ has a more complicated history: a 1963 live version first appeared on 1971’s Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II, but a studio version didn’t receive an official release until 2010’s The Bootleg Series Vol. 9. None of the songs appear on the soundtrack to A Complete Unknown, for which Chalamet recorded a number of Dylan covers.
