Artist: Bob Dylan And The Band

Title: The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11

Year Of Release: 2014

Label: Columbia / Legacy

Genre: Folk Rock

Quality: MP3 320kbps (m3u,scans)

Total Time: 06:34:51

Total Size: 1.00 GB

Album Info



Preserving newly written Bob Dylan songs for copyright is the reason why the Band's Garth Hudson rolled tape at Big Pink but The Basement Tapes were something much more than songwriting demos. Greil Marcus dubbed it a celebration of the "Old, Weird America" in his 1997 book Invisible Republic, connecting these songs to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, adding an extra layer of myth to tapes that were shrouded in mystery from the moment bootlegs started to circulate. The Basement Tapes Complete strengthens portions of that legend while simultaneously puncturing it. Certainly, the six-disc box -- its first five discs assembled according to Hudson's numbering system, with the sixth disc collecting sessions discovered later -- feels substantially different from the LP released in 1975, where the overall picture was distorted by Robbie Robertson adding sometimes significant overdubs and including Band recordings that weren't cut during those seven months in 1967. This is not a minor thing. These sly revisions gave the 1975 album a slight veneer that's been stripped away by this unfussy, startlingly clear remastering, but the big difference is that the chronological sequence on The Basement Tapes Complete gives the set a narrative. The first two discs are the band warming up, playing a bunch of old songs that are often of more recent vintage than the Old, Weird America reputation suggests -- there's a clutch of Johnny Cash songs, a couple from Ian Tyson, a song apiece from Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, and Dallas Frazier, a cross-section that underscores how this was the birth of what would be called Americana -- and then on the second two discs, Dylan starts tying these disparate strands together on his originals. Many of these songs, usually the wildest and wooliest, showed up in 1975, so the news here are the sometimes quite different alternate takes and the major tunes that have been bootlegged widely over the years: the ghostly "I'm Not There," the winding modern spiritual "Sign on the Cross," the rambling, vulgar blues "Get Your Rocks Off," and the even wilder "Bourbon Street." These songs are necessary additions to the canon, but what gives The Basement Tapes their real resonance is the stuff that happens in the margins. It's the half-remembered covers, it's sterling throwaways like "Silent Weekend," it's Dylan turning his early songs upside down, it's hearing Bob and the Band stumble around as they're trying to find a groove. This is the wondrous thing about The Basement Tapes: this is music made with no expectation that anybody outside of a small circle would ever hear it. Of course, the opposite happened. The Basement Tapes leaked out and became an enduring part not only of the legacy of both Dylan and the Band, but also of American music as a whole, as it stood at the crossroads of so many different strands of American culture.







DISC 1

1. Edge of the Ocean

2. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It

3. Roll on Train

4. Mr. Blue

5. Belshazzar

6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget

7. You Win Again

8. Still in Town

9. Waltzing with Sin

10. Big River

11. Big River

12. Folsom Prison Blues

13. Bells of Rhymney

14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue

15. Under Control

16. Ol’ Roisin the Beau

17. I’m Guilty of Loving You

18. Cool Water

19. The Auld Triangle

20. Po’ Lazarus

21. I’m a Fool for You

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DISC 2

1. Johnny Todd

2. Tupelo

3. Kickin’ My Dog Around

4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg

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6. Tiny Montgomery

7. Big Dog

8. I’m Your Teenage Prayer

9. Four Strong Winds

10. The French Girl

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12. Joshua Gone Barbados

13. I’m in the Mood

14. Baby Ain’t That Fine

15. Rock, Salt and Nails

16. (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I

17. Song for Canada

18. People Get Ready

19. I Don’t Hurt Anymore

20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw

21. One Man’s Loss

22. Lock Your Door

23. Baby, Won’t You Be My Baby

24. Try Me Little Girl

25. I Can’t Make It Alone

26. Don’t You Try Me Now



DISC 3

1. Young But Daily Growing

2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond

3. The Hills of Mexico

4. Down on Me

5. One for the Road

6. I’m Alright

7. Million Dollar Bash

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10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread

11. I’m Not There

12. Please, Mrs. Henry

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14. Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)

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16. Get Your Rocks Off

16. Lo and Behold!

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17. Clothes Line Saga

18. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

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20. I Shall Be Released

21. This Wheel’s On Fire

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23. Too Much of Nothing



DISC 4

1. Tears of Rage

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3. Tears of Rage

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5. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

6. Open the Door, Homer

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9. Nothing Was Delivered

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12. All American Boy

13. Sign on the Cross

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15. Odds and Ends

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19. Apple Suckling Tree

20. Don’t Ya Tell Henry

21. Bourbon Street



DISC 5

1. Blowin’ in the Wind

2. One Too Many Mornings

3. A Satisfied Mind

4. It Ain’t Me, Babe

4. It Ain’t Me, Babe

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7. My Woman She’s A-Leavin’

8. Santa Fe

9. Mary Lou, I Love You Too

10. Dress it up, Better Have it All

11. Minstrel Boy

12. Silent Weekend

13. What’s it Gonna Be When it Comes Up

14. 900 Miles from My Home

15. Wildwood Flower

16. One Kind Favor

17. She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain

18. It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee

19. Wild Wolf

20. Goin’ to Acapulco

21. Gonna Get You Now

22. If I Were a Carpenter

23. Confidential

24. All You Have to Do is Dream

25. All You Have to Do is Dream



DISC 6

1. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents

2. Jelly Bean

3. Any Time

4. Down by the Station

5. Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved

6. That’s the Breaks

7. Pretty Mary

8. Will The Circle Be Unbroken

9. King of France

10. She’s on My Mind Again

11. Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad

12. On a Rainy Afternoon

13. I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart

14. Next Time on the Highway

15. Northern Claim

16. Love is Only Mine

17. Silhouettes

18. Bring it on Home

19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

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