Planet Waves Songwriting Credits by Bob Dylan

Released January 17, 1974, Planet Waves was Dylan's first studio album of entirely new material in three and a half years, recorded with the Band in deliberately informal sessions at Village Recorder in Los Angeles from November 2-14, 1973 and produced by Rob Fraboni. The album was timed to precede Dylan's first concert tour since 1966, a reunion with the Band that generated enormous media attention. Dylan wrote all tracks, and critics noted a shift toward laid-back roots rock with openly personal, domestic themes dealing with love, death, and obsession, a departure from the settled Nashville-country tone of his preceding work. It became Dylan's first album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, though sales proved modest at around 600,000 copies by year-end relative to the tour's demand. Critics highlighted its openly personal character, linking its emotional content to Dylan's marriage to Sara Dylan.