The 10 best moments from Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl

Willie Nelson, left, and Bob Dylan. “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” sounded like a piece of eternal wisdom when Nelson wrote and recorded it for 1980’s “Honeysuckle Rose.” Nearly half a century later, the country-jazz ballad is still a showstopper; indeed, if anything, the song’s beauty has only deepened as Nelson somehow continues to find new ways to twist its winding vocal melody. This longtime progressive activist didn’t say anything election-related from the stage, though it seemed notable that in a crowd-pleasing set long on hits — “On the Road Again,” “Always on My Mind,” “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” — one new tune Nelson opted to play was the title track from this year’s “The Border” LP: a stark depiction of the moral complexities at work in a place often reduced to a political cartoon. Then again, Dylan’s snarling take on the delightfully nasty “Ballad of a Thin Man” — which he performed, like most of Wednesday’s set, in a wide-legged stance behind a grand piano, his shirt open nearly to his belly button — suggested he can still find fresh irritation in the misunderstandings of the mid-’60s. — Dylan and Nelson never teamed up at the Bowl, though Dylan did invite Nelson’s harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, to sit in for a very lovely “Simple Twist of Fate.” 8.