Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings

This 36-disc box set presents every surviving tape of Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour, capturing combative audiences and transcendent performances nearly every night.   Put on nearly any of the 36 discs in Bob Dylan’s The 1966 Live Recordings box set and it will probably be perfect. Capturing the songwriter at the crest of his […]

Funkadelic Live – Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan – 12th September 1971

This just-reissued live album is not simply P-Funk in its early phase—it’s P-Funk in transition. Having hardly rehearsed with two new members, Meadowbrook captures moments of barely controlled chaos. Everybody with a stake in R&B knows the essence of live P-Funk: the costumes, the stagecraft, the dozen-plus musicians pushing freewheeling communication through the chaos. It’s known in the visual sense by the coming of the […]