Exclusive! The real story behind Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour with The Band, as revealed by a new box set, new interviews and clues from the Dylan papers. PLUS: the best of Dylan and The Band IN FULL. Also in this issue: Motown’s first annus mirabilis; Neil Young’s latest Archive instalment de-archived; Nick Lowe by Costello, Cooder and Tweedy; Arthur Lee’s Love revelations; Gillian Welch speaks! AND: The The; David Gilmour; Laurie Anderson; Jethro Tull; Galaxie 500; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Pixies; Joan As Police Woman; Wishbone Ash; and farewell, John Mayall…
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Forever Young: The Best Of 1974. Exactly what it says on the tin, with 15 killer songs by Can, King Crimson, Fela Kuti, Betty Davis, Gram Parsons, Robert Wyatt and TWO unreleased tracks from Dylan’s new 1974 Tour box set!
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CONTENTS MOJO 371
COVER STORY: BOB DYLAN Think you have a bead on Dylan’s 1974 arena tour? A new box set of the landmark live shows, along with papers in Dylan’s Tulsa archive, shed new light. PLUS: a deep dive into the collaborative chemistry of Dylan and The Band.
MOTOWN ’64 How, 60 years ago, My Guy, Baby Love and Dancing In The Street made for the Detroit label’s first stellar year. By Where Did Our Love Go? author Nelson George.
NICK LOWE Ups and downs with Brinsley Schwarz; new wave fame and frolics; a new album of wry pop mastery: a Tao Of ‘Basher’ with insights from Tweedy, Costello and Cooder.
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN How Pakistan’s king of qawwali entranced the world of Western rock and recalibrated its definition of ‘transcendent’: “He did not have any ego.”
LAURIE ANDERSON An avant-garde artist, making music about breathing and plane crashes, scores a UK Number 2 smash. No wonder she finds it “more troubling than validating”.
THE THE Chasing his demons from London’s east end to the jungles of Peru, post-punk polymath Matt Johnson went to the edge. Did he make it back in one piece?
GALAXIE 500 Between 1988 and 1990 a delicate flower bloomed in American indie rock. As songs from their archive emerge, they revisit the mysteries of their rise and fall.
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN Celebrating two decades of her theatrical art-pop persona, Joan Wasser recalls epiphanies with Anohni, Rufus Wainwright, Tony Allen and lover Jeff Buckley.
REVIEWED David Gilmour / Nick Cave / Faces / Katy J Pearson / Neil Young / Lady Blackbyrd / Brian Eno / Mercury Rev / Sylvester / The Jesus Lizard / Floating Points / David Bowie / Nada Surf / Robyn Hitchcock / Tindersticks / Mark Lanegan / Bright Eyes / Fat Dog / Ty Segall / Osees / Steve Cropper / Steve Wynn / Blue Öyster Cult / LL Cool J / Snow Patrol / Chilly Gonzales / Joe Ely / Shemekia Copeland / Ween
PLUS Gillian Welch speaks! / Arthur Lee’s lost recordings / How To Buy… Jethro Tull / Pixies in the studio / Terry Reid’s last stand / Howard Devoto philosophises / Alan Parsons projects / Etran De L’Aïr and BASIC unveil themselves / Wishbone Ash wars! / John Mayall, Kinky Friedman and Duke Fakir remembered