Bob Dylan and The Band’s Complete Basement Tapes Released
If you’re a fan of Bob Dylan and/or The Band, you always knew that they made far more music together than was released on 1975’s The Basement Tapes.
Now, all that music, originally recorded in the summer of 1967 in the basement of the West Saugerties, New York – home known as “Big Pink” – is available on a 6-CD set called The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11.
This is the set to check out if you want to know what it sounded like to be in “Big Pink” as Dylan recovered from a motorcycle accident and a band called The Hawks began its transformation into The Band, which was destined to become one of music’s most iconic roots-rock bands. You really can’t underestimate the influence of these recordings. Just listen to this short piece from PRX:
The Band’s Garth Hudson worked with an archivist and producer to restore the tapes so that the music — featuring the late bassist Rick Danko — sounds as it did when it was recorded. The box set of 138 tracks also includes a 120-page book featuring previously unseen photos, and extensive liner notes are also part of the package.
The set is available on CD.
The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 Track List:
Disc One:
- Edge of the Ocean
- My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It (written by Clarence Williams)
- Roll on Train
- Mr. Blue (written by Dewayne Blackwell)
- Belshazzar (written by Johnny Cash)
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget (written by Charlie A Feathers and Stanley A Kesler)
- You Win Again (written by Hank Williams)
- Still in Town (written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard)
- Waltzing with Sin (written by Sonny Burns and Red Hayes)
- Big River (Take 1) (written by Johnny Cash)
- Big River (Take 2) (written by Johnny Cash)
- Folsom Prison Blues (written by Johnny Cash)
- Bells of Rhymney (written by Idris Davies and Peter Seeger)
- Spanish is the Loving Tongue
- Under Control
- Ol’ Roison the Beau (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- I’m Guilty of Loving You
- Cool Water (written by Bob Nolan)
- The Auld Triangle (written by Brendan Francis Behan)
- Po’ Lazarus (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- I’m a Fool for You (Take 1)
- I’m a Fool for You (Take 2)
Disc Two:
- Johnny Todd (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- Tupelo (written by John Lee Hooker)
- Kickin’ My Dog Around (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)
- See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)
- Tiny Montgomery
- Big Dog
- I’m Your Teenage Prayer
- Four Strong Winds (written by Ian Tyson)
- The French Girl (Take 1) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
- The French Girl (Take 2) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
- Joshua Gone Barbados (written by Eric Von Schmidt)
- I’m in the Mood (written by Bernard Besman and John Lee Hooker)
- Baby Ain’t That Fine (written by Dallas Frazier)
- Rock, Salt and Nails (written by Bruce Phillips)
- A Fool Such As I (written by William Marvin Trader)
- Song for Canada (written by Pete Gzowski and Ian Tyson)
- People Get Ready (written by Curtis L Mayfield)
- I Don’t Hurt Anymore (written By Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
- Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (written by Benjamin Lee Blankenship)
- One Man’s Loss
- Lock Your Door
- Baby, Won’t You be My Baby
- Try Me Little Girl
- I Can’t Make it Alone
- Don’t You Try Me Now
Disc Three:
- Young but Daily Growing (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- Bonnie Ship the Diamond (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- The Hills of Mexico (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- Down on Me (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- One for the Road
- I’m Alright
- Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)
- Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1)
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2)
- I’m Not There
- Please Mrs. Henry
- Crash on the Levee (Take 1)
- Crash on the Levee (Take 2)
- Lo and Behold! (Take 1)
- Lo and Behold! (Take 2)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 2)
- I Shall be Released (Take 1)
- I Shall be Released (Take 2)
- This Wheel’s on Fire (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
- Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)
- Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)
Disc Four:
- Tears of Rage (Take 1) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- Tears of Rage (Take 2) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- Tears of Rage (Take 3) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1)
- Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2)
- Open the Door Homer (Take 1)
- Open the Door Homer (Take 2)
- Open the Door Homer (Take 3)
- Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)
- Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)
- Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)
- All American Boy (written by Bobby Bare)
- Sign on the Cross
- Odds and Ends (Take 1)
- Odds and Ends (Take 2)
- Get Your Rocks Off
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)
- Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- Bourbon Street
Disc Five:
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- One Too Many Mornings
- A Satisfied Mind (written by Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes)
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- Ain’t No More Cane (Take 1) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- Ain’t No More Cane (Take 2) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- My Woman She’s A-Leavin’
- Santa-Fe
- Mary Lou, I Love You Too
- Dress it up, Better Have it All
- Minstrel Boy
- Silent Weekend
- What’s it Gonna be When it Comes Up
- 900 Miles from My Home (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- Wildwood Flower (written by A.P. Carter)
- One Kind Favor (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee
- Wild Wolf
- Goin’ to Acapulco
- Gonna Get You Now
- If I Were A Carpenter (written by James Timothy Hardin)
- Confidential (written by Dorina Morgan)
- All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)
- All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)
Disc Six:
- 2 Dollars and 99 Cents
- Jelly Bean
- Any Time
- Down by the Station
- Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- That’s the Breaks
- Pretty Mary
- Will the Circle be Unbroken (written by A.P. Carter)
- King of France
- She’s on My Mind Again
- Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- On a Rainy Afternoon
- I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart
- Next Time on the Highway
- Northern Claim
- Love is Only Mine
- Silhouettes (written by Bob Crewe and Frank C Slay Jr.)
- Bring it on Home
- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- The Spanish Song (Take 1)
- The Spanish Song (Take 2)
When Americana and Canadiana meet….priceless