Bob Dylan / The Band – Before The Flood

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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.

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Asylum Records ‎– AB-201 Stereo Vinyl 2 x LP 1974 US Pitman Pressing

Side 1.

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
4. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
5. It Ain’t Me, Babe
6. Ballad Of A Thin Man

Side 2.

1. Up On Cripple Creek
2. I Shall Be Released
3. Endless Highway
4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
5. Stage Fright

Side 3.

1. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
2. Just Like A Woman
3. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
4. The Shape I’m In
5. When You Awake
6. The Weight

Side 4.

1. All Along The Watchtower
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Blowin’ In The Wind

Credits:
Bass, Vocals – Rick Danko
Design, Photography By – Barry Feinstein
Drums, Vocals – Levon Helm
Engineer [Mixing] – Nat Jeffrey
Engineer [Recording & Mixing] – Rob Fraboni
Engineer [Recording] – Phil Ramone
Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Vocals – Bob Dylan
Guitar, Vocals – Robbie Robertson
Organ, Piano, Clavinet – Garth Hudson
Piano, Drums, Vocals, Organ – Richard Manuel
Mixed At – The Village Recorder
Mastered At – Kendun Recorders
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
Manufactured By – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records

Condition
Media: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Additional information

Weight 1 kg