‘The 1974 Live Recordings’ is a Deeper-Than-Deep Dive Into Dylan’s First Arena Tour
Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966. Tour ’74 was rapturously received, garnering wall-to-wall press coverage; Rolling Stone named it Event of the Year for 1974 (RS 178) and ran a very funny series of Polaroid shots of culture heroes (Warren Beatty,