Bob Dylan & The Band Third Man Records Vault #61 The 1974 Live Recordings MINT

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THIRDMAN RECORDS ANNOUNCES VAULT PACKAGE #61: BOB DYLAN’S THE 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS:THE MISSING SONGS FROM BEFORE THE FLOOD

 3xLP GREENVINYL SET CHRONICLES DYLAN’S LEGENDARY 1974 TOUR WITH THE BAND ANDINCLUDES A 1970s-STYLED SOUVENIR TOUR BOOK WITH PHOTOS AND ARCHIVALMATERIAL, PLUS A 7” OF “BLOWIN' IN THE WIND” B/W “MOST LIKELY YOU GO YOURWAY (AND I’LL GO MINE)” (LIVE 1974)

In honor of the 15-year anniversary of the Vault, the longestcontinuously running vinyl subscription club in the world, Third Man Records inconjunction with Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings is proud to announce its61st Vault package, Bob Dylan’s The 1974 Live Recordings: The Missing Songs FromBefore The Flood. The box set chronicles Dylan’s legendary 1974tour with The Band, a pivotal moment that saw them performing for their largestcrowds to date.

Witha variety of full show performances available to cull from in the compiling of Before The Flood it was natural that some songs, no matterhow compelling and powerful, would not fit on the original 2xLP release in1974. Pressed at Third Man Pressing in Detroit on three charming green LPs,this configuration is the only vinyl release of any of the archived 1974 liverecordings. 

Asan added bonus, Third Man has designed a classic 1970’s-styled souvenir tourbook. Comprising photos taken during this momentous tour and of-the-eragraphics and archival material, this 8.5 x 11 inch, 20 page book is the perfectvisual accompaniment to the moving, powerful audio it is paired with. To top itall off, included here is a 7-inch single featuring the inimitable “Blowin' InThe Wind” as originally included on Before TheFlood backedwith an incendiary take of “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)” recorded at Madison SquareGarden on January 30th, 1974.

Bob Dylan’s 1974 Tour marked his firsttime touring live in eight years and reunited him with The Band - who hadbecome widely renowned in their own right since backing the artist nearly adecade earlier. Booked into arenas for the first time ever, Bob Dylan and TheBand performed 30 dates in 42 days (often playing two sets per day) before anaverage audience of 18,500 - helping set a new standard for what rock concertscould look and sound like. And in front of those crowds, they brought an energythat Rolling Stone’s Ben Fong-Torres described as “searing andsoaring, unified and precise…excellent in itself.” Music critic RobertChristgau compared the sound to Bob Dylan “running over his old songs like atruck.” 

Tour ‘74 kicked off January 3, 1974,at Chicago Stadium - the largest indoor arena in the world at the time it wasbuilt - 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 awildly-reinvented “Ballad Of Hollis Brown,” “Song to Woody” (not performedsince 1962) and Planet Waves outtake “Nobody ‘Cept You” -would be well received in the tour’s first nights. “We were booed off of everystage in Europe,” The Band’s Robbie Robertson recalled to Newsweek oftheir previous run together. “What happened tonight in Chicago is so reassuringfor us.”

The reception wasn’t the only thingthat 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 famousstages, and recorded a series of historic sessions with Bob Dylan - from TheBasement Tapes to Planet Waves. For his part, Bob Dylanhad effectively retired from the road altogether following a 1966 motorcycleaccident, yet was still “widely regarded as the most influential andsignificant star in the last 10 years of American popular music,” according to TheNew York Times.

Though they might not have known it atthe time, Bob Dylan and The Band were at the vanguard of a new era. Tour ‘74would help create the template for the major rock tour, and codify many of itsshared experiences - from the sight of audiences holding up lighters en masse(as captured in the iconic cover image for Before The Flood), tothe bright flash of the house lights during a show’s signal moment, in thiscase their performance of “Like A Rolling Stone.” Likewise many songs performedlive for the first time on Tour ‘74 - “All Along The Watchtower,” “ForeverYoung” 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.

BOB DYLAN

THE 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS: THE MISSING SONGS FROM BEFORE THEFLOOD

 TRACK LIST:

 LP 1, Side A

1. Something There Is About You – 1/30/74, New York City
2. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat – 1/3/74, Chicago
3. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) – 1/15/74, Largo, MD
4. Hero Blues – 1/4/74, Chicago

 LP 1, Side B

1. Tough Mama – 1/3/74, Chicago
2. Maggie’s Farm – 2/14/74, Evening Show, Inglewood, CA
3. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – 2/13/74, Inglewood, CA

 LP 2, Side C

1. Song to Woody – 1/6/74, Evening Show, Philadelphia*
2. Nobody ‘Cept You – 1/3/74, Chicago*
3. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – 1/3/74, Chicago*
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit – 1/4/74, Chicago*
5. To Ramona – 1/6/74, Afternoon Show, Philadelphia*

 LP 2, Side D

1. Girl from the North Country – 1/9/74, Toronto*
2. Mr. Tambourine Man – 1/6/74, Evening Show, Philadelphia*
3. Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind – 1/6/74, Afternoon Show, Philadelphia*
4. Wedding Song – 1/15/74, Largo, MD*

 LP 3, Side E

1. Gates of Eden – 1/31/74, Evening Show, New York City*
2. She Belongs to Me – 2/11/74, Afternoon Show, Oakland*
3. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – 2/14/74, Afternoon Show, Inglewood, CA*
4. The Times They Are A-Changin’ – 2/14/74, Evening Show, Inglewood, CA*

 LP 3, Side F

1. Ballad of Hollis Brown – 1/26/74, Afternoon Show, Houston
2. One Too Many Mornings – 1/16/74, Largo, MD
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – 1/9/74, Toronto
4. Forever Young – 2/13/74, Inglewood, CA

 7-inch single

Side A - Blowin’ In The Wind –2/13-14/74, Inglewood, CA

Side B - Most Likely You Go Your Way(And I’ll Go Mine) – 1/30/74 New York City

All tracks previously unreleasedexcept for “Blowin’ In The Wind”

Bob Dylan: vocals, guitar, harmonica,piano

with

The Band

Robbie Robertson: guitar

Garth Hudson: organ, piano, clavinet,accordion

Richard Manuel: piano, electric piano,organ, drums

Rick Danko: bass guitar

Levon Helm: drums