Bob Dylan announces ‘The 1974 Live Recordings’ box set, featuring previously-unreleased performances

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Bob Dylan has announced details of a new box set called ‘The 1974 Live Recordings’ – a compilation of his arena performances across the year.The project is a new 431-track collection of his performances with The Band, which is set to be released via Columbia and Legacy Recordings across 27 discs.Set to arrive on September 20, the deluxe box set features 417 previously-unreleased performances, as well as newly-mixed recordings and liner notes written by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson.The release marks 50 years since the iconic singer-songwriter returned to touring that year, and in conjunction with the box set, Third Man Records has also announced the upcoming release of ‘The 1974 Live Recordings – The Missing Songs From Before the Flood’.

This is a 3-LP set culled from the same recordings, featuring hand-selected versions of every song Bob Dylan recorded that was not included on the original 1974 live album.Today, to mark the announcement, a never-before-released version of ‘Forever Young’ has been shared.

It was recorded live in Seattle on February 9, 1974. Check it out below.The 1974 tour marked Dylan’s first time hitting the road again in eight years, and also saw him reunite with The Band – who had performed with him 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,” explains a press release.“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.