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Bob Dylan & The Band - Chicago January 3, 1974 (1974)

Track listing:
  1. Hero Blues 3:50
  2. Lay, Lady, Lay 3:38
  3. Tough Mama 4:33
  4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 4:25
  5. Stage Fright 4:34
  6. Share Your Love With Me 3:18
  7. It Ain't Me, Babe 5:19
  8. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 3:52
  9. All Along The Watchtower 3:10
  10. Holy Cow 4:07
  11. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 3:33
  12. Ballad Of A Thin Man 5:00
  13. Up On Cripple Creek 4:17
  14. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) 6:04
  15. The Times They Are A-Changin' 3:21
  16. Song To Woody 4:13
  17. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 5:00
  18. Nobody 'cept You 3:00
  19. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 5:27
  20. Life Is A Carnival 4:38
  21. The Shape I'm In 4:11
  22. When You Awake 4:27
  23. Rag Mama Rag 4:09
  24. Forever Young 6:19
  25. Something There Is About You 4:31
  26. Like A Rolling Stone 7:54
  27. The Weight 4:44
  28. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 3:58

Notes

Chicago Stadium

This was the only time that Dylan played during The Band's set.

Live debuts of Tough Mama, All Along The Watchtower, Nobody 'Cept You, Forever Young, Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine), and Something There Is About You.

This was the opening date after a tour absence of 8 years. The show opens with 3 Dylan songs, then some Band numbers. The catch here is that this is the only concert where Dylan plays the Band songs WITH the Band. After this show, he would take a break while they did their original material, playing with them only on his songs.

There are other highlights as well: Hero Blues (first of only two live performances ever!) and the first-ever "All Along the Watchtower." Amazing that it took until 1974, seven years after "John Wesley Harding," before Dylan performed one of his most famous songs live. And, of course, it's very much like the Hendrix-ized "Before the Flood"-- not quite as cheesy as that version, thankfully. (I find it hilarious that Bob is quoted in the Biograph liner notes as saying, "Ever since [Hendrix] died, I been doing it [his] way" (not a direct quote) Hilarious, of course, because Dylan never played it BUT the Hendrix way!