Description
The Basement Tapes can be heard as a manifesto for the 1990s’ underlying Americana agenda or as the greatest album never intended for commercial release.
Homegrown 1967 recordings taped in The Band’s fabled Big Pink hermitage in Saugerties, New York, many of the 24 songs resonated across American and English rock and folk long before their belated 1975 release through studio interpretations by the Byrds, Fairport Convention, Manfred Mann, Peter, Paul and Mary, and numerous other acolytes, as well as through myriad unauthorised bootlegs.
Good as the covers were, Dylan and the Band rolled their own with an extraordinary coherence that sounds only more authentic in these rough-hewn, intimate, always musical performances, which dovetail with Dylan’s stark John Wesley Harding and the Band’s stunning debut, Music From Big Pink as well as the presciently lo-fi the band.
At a time when most rock culture was entranced with its post-atomic origins, these songs sounded timeless, plunging into pre-industrial folk, turn of the (20th) century barrelhouse and blues, and crackling, vintage rock and roll excursions with offhand verve and a thrilling disregard for what was hip. Time has only reinforced their visionary power.
Track list
A1 Odds And Ends
Written-By – B. Dylan*
1:43
A2 Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast)
Written-By – R. Manuel*
3:40
A3 Million Dollar Bash
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:30
A4 Yazoo Street Scandal
Written-By – J. R. Robertson*
3:26
A5 Goin' To Acapulco
Written-By – B. Dylan*
5:25
A6 Katie's Been Gone
Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Manuel*
2:49
B1 Lo And Behold!
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:43
B2 Bessie Smith
Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Danko*
4:17
B3 Clothes Line Saga
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:56
B4 Apple Suckling Tree
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:47
B5 Please, Mrs. Henry
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:31
B6 Tears Of Rage
Written-By – B. Dylan*, R. Manuel*
4:17
C1 Too Much Of Nothing
Written-By – B. Dylan*
3:00
C2 Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:14
C3 Ain't No More Cane
Arranged By – The Band
Written-By – Traditional
3:57
C4 Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:06
C5 Ruben Remus
Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Manuel*
3:11
C6 Tiny Montgomery
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:51
D1 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:39
D2 Don't Ya Tell Henry
Written-By – B. Dylan*
3:12
D3 Nothing Was Delivered
Written-By – B. Dylan*
4:22
D4 Open The Door Homer
Written-By – B. Dylan*
2:47
D5 Long Distance Operator
Written-By – B. Dylan*
3:38
D6 This Wheel's On Fire
Written-By – B. Dylan*, R. Danko*
3:55
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