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''Before the Flood'' is a live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the Band, released on June 20, 1974 on Asylum Records in the United States and Island Records in the United Kingdom. It is the seventeenth album by Dylan and the seventh by The Band, and documents their joint 1974 American tour. It peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' 200,〔(AllMusic website retrieved 26 October 2015. )〕 reached number eight on the popular album chart in the United Kingdom, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.〔("RIAA – Searchable database: Before the Flood" ). Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 25 October 2011.〕 ==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,Washington, at the 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.〔Shelton, Robert. ''No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan.'' 1986, ISBN 978-0-688-05045-0, pp. 436-437.〕 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.〔(Bjorner's Files Still on the Road )〕 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.〔Gray, Michael. ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia''. 2006, ISBN 978-0-8264-6933-5, p. 43.〕 Another theory is that the title refers to the album arriving before the inevitable flood of bootlegs could saturate the underground market. While Dylan and The Band had recorded the studio album ''Planet Waves'' prior to the tour, few of its 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.〔Shelton, p. 378.〕 The Band continued to record on their own for Capitol Records. Subsequent reissues were on the Columbia imprint, and on March 31, 2009, a remastered digipak version of ''Before the Flood'' was issued by Legacy Records, Columbia now part of Sony Music Entertainment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Before the Flood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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