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Bob Dylan
- Record Label: Columbia / Legacy
- Release Date: Sep 20, 2024
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- Summary: The 27-disc box set of live recordings of Bob Dylan and The Band's 1974 concerts features 417 previously unreleased live tracks, with 133 newly mixed from 16-track tape. A three LP highlights version is available from Third Man Records.
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- Record Label: Columbia / Legacy
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 18, 2024By the time it’s [Ballad Of A Thin Man is] last played (Disc 25, Inglewood, California) it has the feel of the pivotal point in the entire set. It’s an illustration of those moments when the unavoidable repetition of songs serves a genuine purpose, where the listeners’ patience/tolerance is rewarded with a sense they’re party to something truly human; a living, breathing entity that shifts in mood or tone influenced by the size or shape of the room and the response from the people witnessing it first-hand in that particular room.
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UncutSep 18, 2024The many versions of that song [Ballad Of A Thin Man] sprinkled throughout the discs illustrate the fluctuations of interpretation, form and commitment that were a feature of Dylan’s first tour in eight years, unremarked at the time but now on full view. [Nov 2024, p.48]
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MojoSep 18, 2024There are inevitable quibbles. The omission of The Band’s own songs here is a missed opportunity to tie together these two institutions, both then wrestling with unknown futures. In the sleevenote, critic Elizabeth Nelson forgoes research into a historical moment where the primary witnesses are rapidly disappearing for a spree of purple prose. Some tapes are, of course, better than others. But, by and large, pick a track at random and you’ll find yourself stunned by how hard these six were pushing. [Nov 2024, p.98]
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Sep 18, 2024None of The Band’s songs are here—as with other recent vault clearances, The 1974 Live Recordings exists to extend Sony’s ownership of its Dylan copyrights. For another, this music really did morph and shift in measurable, sometimes engrossing ways over that six-week flurry; the Dylanologists weren’t just whistling “Hero Blues.”