Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (US), UDSACD 2082
Style: Roots Rock, Country Rock, Acoustic
Country: Minnesota, U.S. / Toronto, Canada - Woodstock, New York, U.S.
Time: 77:35
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 416 Mb
The
Basement Tapes is the sixteenth album by the American singer-songwriter
Bob Dylan and his second with the Band. It was released on June 26,
1975, by Columbia Records. Two-thirds of the album's 24 tracks feature
Dylan on lead vocals backed by the Band, and were recorded in 1967,
eight years before the album's release, in the lapse between the release
of Blonde on Blonde and the subsequent recording and release of John
Wesley Harding, during sessions that began at Dylan's house in
Woodstock, New York, then moved to the basement of Big Pink. While most
of these had appeared on bootleg albums, The Basement Tapes marked their
first official release. The remaining eight songs, all previously
unavailable, feature the Band without Dylan and were recorded between
1967 and 1975.
During his 1965-1966 world tour, Dylan was backed by
the Hawks, a five-member rock group who would later become famous as the
Band. After Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident in July 1966,
four members of the Hawks came to Dylan's home in the Woodstock area to
collaborate with him on music and film projects. While Dylan was out of
the public's eye during an extended period of recovery in 1967, he and
the members of the Hawks recorded more than 100 tracks together,
incorporating original compositions, contemporary covers, and
traditional material. Dylan's new style of writing moved away from the
urban sensibility and extended narratives that had characterized his
most recent albums, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, toward
songs that were more intimate and which drew on many styles of
traditional American music. While some of the basement songs are
humorous, others dwell on nothingness, betrayal and a quest for
salvation. In general, they possess a rootsy quality anticipating the
Americana genre. For some critics, the songs on The Basement Tapes,
which circulated widely in unofficial form, mounted a major stylistic
challenge to rock music in the late sixties.
When Columbia Records
prepared the album for official release in 1975, eight songs recorded
solely by the Band-in various locations between 1967 and 1975-were added
to 16 songs taped by Dylan and the Band in 1967. Overdubs were added in
1975 to songs from both categories. The Basement Tapes was critically
acclaimed upon release, reaching number seven on the Billboard Top LPs
& Tape album chart. Subsequently, the format of the 1975 album has
led critics to question the omission of some of Dylan's best-known 1967
compositions and the inclusion of material by the Band that was not
recorded in Woodstock.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes)
01. Odds And Ends (01:47)
02. Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) (03:39)
03. Million Dollar Bash (02:32)
04. Yazoo Street Scandal (03:29)
05. Goin' To Acapulco (05:27)
06. Katies's Been Gone (02:48)
07. Lo And Behold! (02:46)
08. Bessie Smith (04:18)
09. Clothes Line Saga (02:58)
10. Apple Suckling Tree (02:48)
11. Please, Mrs. Henry (02:33)
12. Tears Of Rage (04:16)
13. Too Much Of Nothing (03:03)
14. Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (02:14)
15. Ain't No More Cane (03:58)
16. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (02:04)
17. Ruben Remus (03:15)
18. Tiny Montgomery (02:51)
19. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (02:42)
20. Don't Ya Tell Henry (03:13)
21. Nothing Was Delivered (04:23)
22. Open The Door, Homer (02:49)
23. Long Distance Operator (03:39)
24. This Wheel's On Fire (03:51)
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