Bob Dylan - Before the Flood
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Artist: Bob DylanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-03-31
Music Label: Sony Legacy
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Free Music Review: 2009 Remaster is a brilliant upgrade.
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been vexed by this release ever since some old friends of mine used to rave about it. I just couldn't warm up to it. I thought the Dylan songs were just not like the studio ones I was familar with and the sonic limitations (of the orignal CD release) definitely did not help its cause. Now I can say it was soley the sonics that kept this on the shelf for so long. The improved sound is just brilliant, the high end rides above a solid bottom whereas this used to be a muddy mess. I can finally recommend this. Many diehards will lament the lack of any bonus material whatsoever. This is how the Dylan machine operates, he uses his bootleg series toward that end and he keeps the legacy material tried and true. I applaud that and I think brevity is sometimes its own reward.
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For his 1974 tour, Dylan reunited with The Band-the only group that could possibly keep up with his spontaneous new spins on his classics. This double-album document of that immensely successful tour features Highway 61 Revisited; Like a Rolling Stone; Ballad of a Thin Man; Lay Lady Lay; All Along the Watchtower , and more including Band tunes like The Weight and The Shape I'm In !Dylan has issued a large number of live albums in his day, but 1974's Before the Flood deserves special mention because of the presence of the Band behind him. Dylan had recently brought the Band into the studio to record the chart-topping (yet still somehow underappreciated) Planet Waves, which was the first (and, as it turned out, only) studio record he made after leaving Columbia for Asylum. He then asked them along on the subsequent tour, which at the time became the most successful rock tour in history. The fruits of that partnership are contained on this two-CD set, which actually ignores Planet Waves completely in favor of older classics. Although the album includes several strong collaborations, the highlights ironically come during Dylan's solo-acoustic portion, which yields powerful and gritty versions of "Don't Think Twice" and "It's Alright Ma," and during the Band's own exhilarating numbers with Dylan sitting out. --Marc Greilsamer
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