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Bob Dylan - The 1974 Live Recordings, New 431-Track Collection Of The Artist's Arena Performances With The Band, To Be Released Across 27 Discs On Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings, September 20.<br/><br/>Deluxe Box Set Features 417 Previously Unreleased Performances, Newly-Mixed Recordings And Liner Notes by Elizabeth Nelson.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Bob Dylan's 1974 Tour marked his first time touring 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." <br/><br/>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."<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/> <br/>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.

Volym 12 i Bob Dylans hyllade Bootleg serie med exklusiva inspelningar. Denna 6CD Deluxe box fokuserar på inspelningarna till de legendariska albumen in Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited och Blonde On Blonde, som kom att säkerställa Bob Dylans rykte som oöverträffad låtskrivare och artist. Boxen innehåller studio inspelningar som inte tidigare släppts. Såsom inte tidigare publicerade sånger, inspelningar från repetitioner samt alternativa tagningar från inspelningarna av albumen. Alla inspelningar överförda och mixade från originaltaperna.<br/><br/>The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Deluxe Edition låter oss för första gången to del av dessa eftersökta inspelningar. På 6CD finns ej tidigare presenterade Dylan sånger, inspelningar från repetitioner samt alternativa tagningar av hans välkända låtar och desssutom hela sessionen för "Like A Rolling Stone" samt mycket mer. <br/><br/>Den innehåller också en bok med hundratals unika och ej tidigare visade foton och memorabilia kommenterade av Bill Flanagan och Sean Wilentz.<br/><br/>Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited och dubbelalbumet Blonde On Blonde skrevs och spelades in under en period av 14 månader (från Januari1965 till Mars 1966) och betraktas allmänt som tre av de mest viktiga och inflytelserikaste albumen under 60-talets musikaliska guldålder. Dylan spelade in albumen med producenterna Tom Wilson (Bringing It All Back Home, "Like A Rolling Stone") i New York och Bob Johnston i New York (Highway 61 Revisited) and Nashville (Blonde On Blonde).

The original double album included 22 tracks, selected from the two shows Dylan played at the legendary Budokan hall in Tokyo on February 28 and March 1, 1978 during his first ever tour of Japan. Fast forward to 2006, when our Japanese office found the original multi-track tapes to both full shows in their archives. It's taken 17 long years since then but we are now finally getting ready to release all 58 songs from the two nights that were recorded in a fantastic new mix by the original engineer Tom Suzuki and with new artwork by the original art director Teruhisa Tajima. <br/><br/>All songs from the two shows Dylan played at the legendary Budokan hall in Tokyo on February 28 and March 1, 1978 during his first ever tour of Japan. All 58 songs from the two nights were recorded in a fantastic new mix by the original engineer Tom Suzuki and with new artwork by the original art director Teruhisa Tajima.<br/><br/>4-CD box set including 58 songs, 36 of which are previously unreleased. This will be a stunning 12x12 inch box set with a 60-page book including tons of unseen photography, a copy of the original 20-page tour book, ticket stub replicas, two posters and two facsimile print ads.<br/> <br/>Note: this release is not part of the Bootleg Series.

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at Time Out of Mind, Dylan's mid-career masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release on September 30, 1997. Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, and piano), Daniel Lanois (guitar and organ), Tony Garnier (bass) and Tony Mangurian (drums and percussion) through incandescent live renditions (also previously unreleased) showcasing Dylan and his touring ensemble channeling the songs on-stage from 1998-2001.

En megabox innehållande alla kända inspelningar från Bob Dylan omskrivna och kontroversiella turné 1966 i USA, Europa och Australien. En 36CD box samt med inspelningar från mixerbordet, CBS mobile recording och inspelningar från publiken. Massor av dessa inspelningar har inte givit ut på suspekta bootlegs. Dessutom ingår en bok med liner notes av Clinton Heylin, som tidigare skrivit om denna turné.<br/><br/>Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings:<br/>Disc 1 - Sydney, April 13, 1966 (Soundboard recorded by TCN 9 TV Australia)<br/>Disc 2 - Sydney, April 13, 1966 (Soundboard recorded by TCN 9 TV Australia)<br/>Disc 3 - Melbourne, April 20, 1966 (Soundboard / unknown broadcast)<br/>Disc 4 - Copenhagen, May 1, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 5 - Dublin, May 5, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 6 - Dublin, May 5, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 7 - Belfast, May 6, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 8 - Belfast, May 6, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 9 - Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard / audience)<br/>Disc 10 - Bristol, May 10, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 11 - Cardiff, May 11, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 12 - Birmingham, May 12, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 13 - Birmingham, May 12, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 14 - Liverpool, May 14, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 15 - Leicester, May 15, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 16 - Leicester, May 15, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 17 - Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (CBS Records recording)<br/>Disc 18 - Sheffield, May 16, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 19 - Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording)<br/>Disc 20 - Manchester, May 17, 1966 (CBS Records recording except Soundcheck/Soundboard)<br/>Disc 21 - Glasgow, May 19, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 22 - Edinburgh, May 20, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 23 - Edinburgh, May 20, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 24 - Newcastle, May 21, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 25 - Newcastle, May 21, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 26 - Paris, May 24, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 27 - Paris, May 24, 1966 (Soundboard)<br/>Disc 28 - London, May 26, 1966 (CBS Records recording)<br/>Disc 29 - London, May 26, 1966 (CBS Records recording)<br/>Disc 30 - London, May 27, 1966 (CBS Records recording)<br/>Disc 31 - London, May 27, 1966 (CBS Records recordings)<br/>Disc 32 - White Plains, NY, February 5, 1966 (Audience tape)<br/>Disc 33 - Pittsburgh, PA, February 6, 1966 (Audience tape)<br/>Disc 34 - Hempstead, NY, February 26, 1966 (Audience tape)<br/>Disc 35 - Melbourne, April 19, 1966 (Audience tape)<br/>Disc 36 - Stockholm, April 29, 1966 (Audience tape)

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För att fira 50-årsjubileumet sedan Simon & Garfunkel skivdebuterade släpps denna box innehållande alla 11 album som släppts på Columbia Records. Boxen innehåller 12 CD i vinyl replicas samt en fin 48-sidig bok. Albumen som ingår är: Wednesday Morning, 3.A.M., Sounds Of<br/>Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, The Graduate (soundtrack), Bookends, Bridge Over Trouble Water, Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, The Concert in Central Park, Old Friends Live On Stage, Live From New York City 1967, Live 1969.