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Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release The 1974 Live Recordings on Friday, September 20, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist’s 1974 performances backed by The Band, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs. The 1974 Live Recordings offers fans 417 previously-unreleased Bob Dylan live tracks – including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording – along with new liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson. Bob Dylan’s 1974 Tour marked his first time performing 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 multitrack 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. BOB DYLAN / 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS

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Record LabelSnyl, Sony Legacy

UPC0196588909320

eBay Product ID (ePID)22071185548

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FormatCD

Release Year2024

GenreRock

ArtistDylan, Bob

Release TitleThe 1974 Live Recordings

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Item Weight6.48 lb

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Number of Tracks458

Number of Discs27

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 * January 3, 1974 - Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Il 1.2 1. Hero Blues 1.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 1.4 3. Tough Mama 1.5 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 1.6 5. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 1.7 6. All Along the Watchtower 1.8 7. Song to Woody 1.9 8. the Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 1.10 9. Nobody 'Cept You 1.11 10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 1.12 11. Forever Young 1.13 12. Something There Is About You 1.14 13. Like a Rolling Stone 1.15 14. Most Likely You Go You Way (And I'll Go Mine) 2.1 * January 4, 1974 - Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Il 2.2 1. Hero Blues 2.3 2. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 2.4 3. It Ain't Me, Babe 2.5 4. Tough Mama 2.6 5. Ballad of a Thin Man 2.7 6. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 2.8 7. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2.9 8. the Times They Are A-Changin' 2.10 9. Love Minus Zero/No Limit 2.11 10. the Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 2.12 11. Nobody 'Cept You 2.13 12. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 2.14 13. Maggie's Farm 3.1 * January 6, 1974 (Afternoon) - the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa 3.2 1. Ballad of Hollis Brown 3.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 3.4 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 3.5 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 3.6 5. Tough Mama 3.7 6. Ballad of a Thin Man 3.8 7. All Along the Watchtower 3.9 8. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 3.10 9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 3.11 10. to Ramona 3.12 11. Mama, You Been on My Mind 3.13 12. the Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 3.14 13. Nobody 'Cept You 3.15 14. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 3.16 15. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 3.17 16. Forever Young 3.18 17. Something There Is About You 3.19 18. Like a Rolling Stone 4.1 * January 6, 1974 (Evening) - the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa 4.2 1. Rainy Day Women #12 ; 35 4.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 4.4 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 4.5 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 4.6 5. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 4.7 6. Ballad of a Thin Man 4.8 7. All Along the Watchtower 4.9 8. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 4.10 9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 4.11 10. the Times They Are A-Changin' 4.12 11. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 4.13 12. Song to Woody 4.14 13. Mr. Tambourine Man 4.15 14. Nobody 'Cept You 4.16 15. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 4.17 16. Forever Young 4.18 17. Something There Is About You 4.19 18. Like a Rolling Stone 4.20 19. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 5.1 * January 7, 1974 - the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa 5.2 1. Rainy Day Women #12 ; 35 5.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 5.4 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 5.5 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 5.6 5. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 5.7 6. Ballad of a Thin Man 5.8 7. All Along the Watchtower 5.9 8. Ballad of Hollis Brown 5.10 9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 5.11 10. Just Like a Woman 5.12 11. Girl from the North Country 5.13 12. Wedding Song 5.14 13. Nobody 'Cept You 5.15 14. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 5.16 15. Forever Young 5.17 16. Something There Is About You 5.18 17. Like a Rolling Stone 5.19 18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 6.1 * January 9, 1974 - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada 6.2 1. Rainy Day Women #12 ; 35 6.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 6.4 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 6.5 4. It Ain't Me, Babe 6.6 5. It Take a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 6.7 6. Ballad of a Thin Man 6.8 7. All Along the Watchtower 6.9 8. Ballad of Hollis Brown 6.10 9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 6.11 10. Just Like a Woman 6.12 11. Girl from the North Country 6.13 12. Wedding Song 6.14 13. Nobody 'Cept You 6.15 14. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 6.16 15. Forever Young 6.17 16. Something There Is About You 6.18 17. Like a Rolling Stone 6.19 18. Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 7.1 * January 11, 1974 - Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada 7.2 1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 7.3 2. Lay, Lady, Lay 7.4 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 7.5 4. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 7.6 5. It Ain't Me, Babe 7.7 6. Ballad of a Thin Man 7.8 7. All Along the Watchtower 7.9 8. Ballad of Hollis Brown 7.10 9. Knockin' on Heav

NotesThe 1974 Live Recordings celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's return to touring that year. Featuring all professionally recorded shows from the artist's 1974 performances backed by The Band, the collection will be available as a deluxe box set across 27 CDs. The 1974 Live Recordings offers fans 417 previously-unreleased Bob Dylan live tracks - including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording - along with new liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson.

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