The longest, strangest trip embarked upon by a rock ’n’ roll band ended 30 years ago at Soldier Field when the Grateful Dead ...

With the benefit of half a century of hindsight, Bob Dylan and The Band's The Basement Tapes (released 6/26/75) would appear ...

When it comes to recorded music, the tail has always wagged the dog; the length of songs has long been dictated by the ...

Planet Waves, the album that prompted Dylan's reunification with the Band, is excellent. But unfortunately the opening song, ...

You’d be forgiven for assuming Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are birds of a different feather. One’s a reclusive Jewish kid ...

Dylan's 40-show 1974 tour with The Band produced a live double-album later that year. Now, the music available from that tour has increased dramatically with the release of a new 27-CD set.

Bob Dylan’s 1974 return was a watershed moment for music fans – I watched from the third row After a motorcycle crash and eight years without touring, the legendary singer’s live comeback ...

In early 1974, Bob Dylan reunited with his former collaborators The Band for a two-month North American tour. Dylan had been off the road for eight years, recovering from a 1966 motorcycle ...

These are righteous men. But are they right? A new box set out Friday, The 1974 Live Recordings, can be viewed as a kind of fact-check on the naysayers, both inside and outside Dylan’s inner circle.

His return meant a rush for tickets, which were available via write-in lottery. Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966.

PLAYBACK: Bob Dylan was teetering on Insignificance when he finally returned to the road in 1974 with The Band, who were in the throes of their own turmoil at the time. That tour saved both their ...