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Bob Dylan

The Basement Tapes

£39.99

Released: 1st December 2017. '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'.

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Vinyl 12" Album

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  • Details

    Released:
    1st December 2017
    Category:
    Rock & Pop
    Format:
    Vinyl 12" Album
    Barcode:
    889854517519
  • Description

    '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'.
    Duration:
    77.2 minutes
  • Track listing

    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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