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Bob Dylan - The 1974 Live Recordings (27 CDs)
Limited Deluxe Box Set Edition
Bob Dylan’s 1974 Tour marked his first time touring live in eight years and reunited him with The Band - who had become widely renowned in their own right since backing the artist nearly a decade earlier. Booked into arenas for the first time ever, Bob Dylan and The Band performed 30 dates in 42 days (often playing two sets per day) before an average audience of 18,500 - helping set a new standard for what rock concerts could look and sound like. And in front of those crowds, they brought an energy that Rolling Stone’s Ben Fong-Torres described as “searing and soaring, unified and precise…excellent in itself.” Music critic Robert Christgau compared the sound to Bob Dylan “running over his old songs like a truck.”
Tour ‘74 kicked off January 3, 1974, at Chicago Stadium - the largest indoor arena in the world at the time it was built - with a tense and combative rip through ultimate deep-cut “Hero Blues,” an acoustic-gone-electric outtake from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan sessions, that he had scarcely performed before - or since. Additional rarities - like a wildly-reinvented “Ballad Of Hollis Brown,” “Song to Woody” (not performed since 1962) and Planet Waves outtake “Nobody ‘Cept You” - would be well received in the tour’s first nights. “We were booed off of every stage in Europe,” The Band’s Robbie Robertson recalled to Newsweek of their previous run together. “What happened tonight in Chicago is so reassuring for us.”
The reception wasn’t the only thing that had changed since Bob Dylan and The Band last toured together in 1966. Since then, The Band had released six LPs, played Woodstock and other famous stages, and recorded a series of historic sessions with Bob Dylan - from The Basement Tapes to Planet Waves. For his part, Bob Dylan had effectively retired from the road altogether following a 1966 motorcycle accident, yet was still “widely regarded as the most influential and significant star in the last 10 years of American popular music,” according to The New York Times.
Though they might not have known it at the time, Bob Dylan and The Band were at the vanguard of a new era. Tour ‘74 would help create the template for the major rock tour, and codify many of its shared experiences - from the sight of audiences holding up lighters en masse (as captured in the iconic cover image for Before The Flood), to the bright flash of the house lights during a show’s signal moment, in this case their performance of “Like A Rolling Stone.” Likewise many songs performed live for the first time on Tour ‘74 - “All Along The Watchtower,” “Forever Young” and the show’s eventual opener-and-closer “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)” - would take on a life of their own.
At the outset, the 1974 Tour was captured on a stereo soundboard mix, on both 1⁄4” tape and cassette. By tour’s end, Asylum Records’ David Geffen had commissioned recordings on multi-track tape, the standard at the time, for eventual release on Before the Flood. The 1974 Live Recordings includes it all - the cassettes and 1⁄4” tapes, and the shows that were recorded on 16-track tape, newly-mixed for this collection.
Track Listing:
Track list
CD -1 January 3, 1974 – Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL
Hero Blues
Lay, Lady, Lay
Tough Mama
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
All Along the Watchtower
Song to Woody
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
CD - 2 January 4, 1974 – Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL
Hero Blues
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Tough Mama
Ballad of a Thin Man
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Maggie’s Farm
CD - 3 January 6, 1974 (Afternoon) – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Tough Mama
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
To Ramona
Mama, You Been on My Mind
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
CD - 4 January 6, 1974 (Evening) – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Song to Woody
Mr. Tambourine Man
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
CD - 5 January 7, 1974 – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
I Don’t Believe You
(She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Just Like a Woman
Girl from the North Country
Wedding Song
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
CD - 6 January 9, 1974 – Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
It Take a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Just Like a Woman
Girl from the North Country
Wedding Song
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
CD - 7 January 11, 1974 – Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
8. CD January 14, 1974 (Afternoon) – Boston Gardens, Boston, MA
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
It Ain’t Me, Babe
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
9. CD January 15, 1974 – Capital Centre, Largo, MD
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Wedding Song
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
10. CD January 16, 1974 – Capital Centre, Largo, MD
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
One Too Many Mornings
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Nobody ‘Cept You
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
11. CD January 17, 1974 – Coliseum, Charlotte, NC
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
12. CD January 19, 1974 (Afternoon) – Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
13. CD January 21, 1974 – The Omni, Atlanta, GA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
14. CD January 22, 1974 – The Omni, Atlanta, GA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
15. CD January 26, 1974 (Afternoon) – Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
16. CD January 26, 1974 (Evening) – Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, TX
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
17. CD January 30, 1974 – Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – released on Before the Flood
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) – Incomplete
Forever Young
Something There Is About You
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Blowin’ in the Wind
18. CD January 31, 1974 (Afternoon) – Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden – Incomplete
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited – released on A Musical History (The Band)
Like a Rolling Stone – Incomplete
19. CD January 31, 1974 (Evening) – Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower – Incomplete
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Gates of Eden
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Blowin’ in the Wind
20. CD February 9, 1974 (Afternoon) – Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
She Belongs to Me
The Times They Are A-Changin’
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Wedding Song
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
21. CD February 9, 1974 (Evening) – Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Just Like a Woman
Wedding Song
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
It’s All Right, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Blowin’ in the Wind
22. CD February 11, 1974 (Afternoon) – Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
She Belongs to Me
The Times They Are A-Changin’
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Wedding Song
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone – Incomplete
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Blowin’ in the Wind
23. CD February 11, 1974 (Evening) – Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, CA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Just Like a Woman
Gates of Eden
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Incomplete
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited – Incomplete
Like a Rolling Stone
Maggie’s Farm
Blowin’ in the Wind
24. CD February 13, 1974 – The Forum, Inglewood, CA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay – released on Before the Flood
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 – released on Before the Flood
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
She Belongs to Me
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone – released on Before the Flood
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Blowin’ in the Wind – released on Before the Flood (first two verses only)
25. CD February 14, 1974 (Afternoon) – The Forum, Inglewood, CA
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man – released on Before the Flood
All Along the Watchtower – released on Before the Flood
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
She Belongs to Me
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Just Like a Woman
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone
Blowin’ in the Wind – released on Before the Flood (last verse only)
26. CD February 14, 1974 (Evening) – The Forum, Inglewood, CA (Pt. 1)
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) – released on Before the Flood
Lay, Lady, Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain’t Me, Babe – released on Before the Flood
Ballad of a Thin Man
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Mr. Tambourine Man
Knockin’ on Heaven's Door
27. CD February 14, 1974 (Evening) – The Forum, Inglewood, CA (Pt. 2)
She Belongs to Me
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Just Like a Woman – released on Before the Flood
Gates of Eden
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right – released on Before the Flood
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) – released on Before the Flood
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited – released on Before the Flood
Like a Rolling Stone
Maggie’s Farm
Blowin’ in the Wind
Format: CD
Label: Columbia Records / Legacy Records
Catalog No: 19658890932
Barcode: 0196588909320
Genre: Folk
No of Discs: 27
Release Date: 9/20/2024
UPC: 196588909320