Bob Dylan - Before The Flood (1974/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Before the Flood is a double live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the Band, released in June 1974 on Asylum Records in the United States and Island Records in the United Kingdom. It is the seventeenth album by Dylan and the seventh by The Band, and documents their joint 1974 American tour. It peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, reached number eight on the popular album chart in the United Kingdom, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan's fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971's Cahoots. The tour, with its attendant publicity, definitely returned both artists to center stage, and it definitely succeeded, breaking box office records and earning great reviews. Before the Flood, a double-album souvenir of the tour, suggests that these were generally dynamic shows, but not because they were reveling in the past, but because Dylan was fighting the nostalgia of his audience – nostalgia, it must be noted, that was promoted as the very reason behind these shows. Yet that's what gives this music such kick – Dylan reworks, rearranges, reinterprets these songs in ways that are still disarming, years after its initial release. He could only have performed interpretations this radical with a group as sympathetic, knowing of his traits as the band, whose own recordings here are respites from the storm. And this is a storm – the sound of a great rocker, surprising his band and audience by tearing through his greatest songs in a manner that might not be comforting, but it guarantees it to be one of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe.

TRACKLIST

1. Bob Dylan - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
2. Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
3. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
4. Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - January 1974) (2008 Remaster)
5. Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me, Babe (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
6. Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
7. Bob Dylan - Up on Cripple Creek (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
8. Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
9. Bob Dylan - Endless Highway (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
10. Bob Dylan - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
11. Bob Dylan - Stage Fright (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
12. Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
13. Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
14. Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
15. Bob Dylan - The Shape I'm In (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
16. Bob Dylan - When You Awake (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
17. Bob Dylan - The Weight (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
18. Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
19. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
20. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)
21. Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind (Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974) (2008 Remaster)



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