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YOU TAKE WHAT YOU NEED
AND YOU LEAVE THE REST
Before the Flood
is a live album
by American
singer-songwriter
and
released on
June 20, 1974,
on Asylum Records
in the United States
and Island Records
in the United Kingdom.
It was Dylan's
first live album,
although live recordings
of earlier performances
would later be released.
It is the 15th album
by Dylan
and the seventh
by the Band,
and documents
their joint
1974 American tour.
It peaked at No. 3
on the
Billboard 200,
reached No. 8
on the
popular album chart
in the UK,
and has been
certified Platinum
by the Recording
Industry Association
of America.
Content
Dylan and his
new record label
Asylum had planned
professional recordings
before the tour began,
ten separate sessions
in total:
three in New York
at Madison Square Garden
on
January 30 and 31;
two in Seattle,
at the
Seattle Center Coliseum
on February 9;
two in
Oakland, California,
at the
Alameda County Coliseum
on
February 11;
and three in
Los Angeles
on
February 13 and 14.
To compile the album,
recordings were taken
from the final
three shows at
the Los Angeles Forum
in Inglewood, California,
with only
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
from New York.
The title of the album
is thought to derive
from the novel
Farn Mabul
by Yiddish writer
Sholem Asch;
Dylan had a
personal relationship
with
Moses Asch,
son of Sholem
and founder of
Folkways Records,
a record label
hugely influential
in the
folk music revival.
Dylan and the Band
had recorded the
studio album
Planet Waves
prior to the tour.
In
"Wedding Song",
the final recording
on the album,
He sings,
"We can't regain what
went down in the flood".
Few of the album's songs
were incorporated
into the tour's setlist,
and none are represented
on
Before the Flood.
After the
double album release,
Dylan signed a
new contract
with
Columbia Records
in time for his next
studio album,
Blood on the Tracks,
after returning
label president
Goddard Lieberson
made a
determined campaign
to get
Dylan back from
Asylum.
The Band
continued to record
on their own
for
Capitol Records.
TRACKLIST
CD 1
Most Likely You Go Your Way
(And I'll Go Mine)
Lady, Lady, Lay
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
It Ain't Me, Babe
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Up On Cripple Creek
I Shall Be Released
Endless Highway
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Stage Fright
CD 2
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Just like a Woman
It's Alright, Ma
(I'm Only Bleeding)
The Shape I'm In
When You Awake
The Weight
All Along the Watchtower
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone
Blowin' in the Wind
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