'The Basement Tapes' can be heard as a manifesto for the '90s' 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'.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

Length

1.Odds and Ends

Bob Dylan

1.47

2.Orange Juice Blues

Bob Dylan

3.39

3.Million Dollar Bash

Bob Dylan

2.31

4.Yazoo Street Scandal

Bob Dylan

3.29

5.Goin' to Acapulco

Bob Dylan

5.27

6.Katie's Been Gone

Bob Dylan

2.46

7.Lo and Behold!

Bob Dylan

2.46

8.Bessie Smith

Bob Dylan

4.18

9.Clothes Line Saga

Bob Dylan

2.58

10.Apple Suckling Tree

Bob Dylan

2.48

11.Please, Mrs. Henry

Bob Dylan

2.33

12.Tears of Rage

Bob Dylan

4.15

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

Length

1.Too Much of Nothing

Bob Dylan

3.04

2.Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread

Bob Dylan

2.15

3.Ain't No More Cane

Bob Dylan

3.58

4.Crash On the Levee

Bob Dylan

2.04

5.Ruben Remus

Bob Dylan

3.15

6.Tiny Montgomery

Bob Dylan

2.46

7.You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Bob Dylan

2.42

8.Don't Ya Tell Henry

Bob Dylan

3.12

9.Nothing Was Delivered

Bob Dylan

4.23

10.Open the Door, Homer

Bob Dylan

2.49

11.Long Distance Operator

Bob Dylan

3.39

12.This Wheel's On Fire

Bob Dylan

3.52

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