Desire (Bob Dylan album) McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, and Joan Baez who not only contributed during Dylan's set, but also played mini-sets of their own. Bruce Springsteen was invited to perform, but declined when Dylan informed him that he could not use the E Street Band to back him. The fall of 1975 would ultimately produce a widely criticized film, "Renaldo and Clara", but the concerts themselves were well received. Often regarded as one of Dylan's finest series of shows, this first leg of the tour was eventually documented on "". On January 5, 1976, "Desire" was released, garnering a fair share of critical acclaim.
Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour critical status was once again growing after years of minimal activity; it would bound far higher with the next year's release of "Blood on the Tracks". Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour The Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour – often referred to as Tour '74 – was a two-month concert tour in early 1974 that featured Bob Dylan, in his first real tour in eight years, performing with The Band. As The Hawks, the then little-known group had backed him on his previous tour, the exhaustive 1966 world tour, between the releases of "Highway 61 Revisited" and