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 publisher. On November 4, 2014, Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings released "" by Bob Dylan and the Band. These 138 tracks in a six-CD box form Volume 11 of Dylan's "Bootleg Series". The 1975 album, "The Basement Tapes", contained some of the songs which Dylan and the Band recorded in their homes in Woodstock, New York, in 1967. Subsequently, over 100 recordings and alternate takes have circulated on bootleg records. The sleeve notes for the new box set are by Sid Griffin, American musician and author of "Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes". On February 3, 2015,