The Basement Tapes - Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (Deluxe Edition)

Bob Dylan & The Band

The Basement Tapes - Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (Deluxe Edition)
Format
Audio
Published
7 November 2014
ISBN
0888750161222

The Basement Tapes - Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (Deluxe Edition)

Bob Dylan & The Band

6CD deluxe version in oversized slipcase with a separate hardcover photo book.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete has been compiled from meticulously restored original tapes - many found only recently - this historic six-disc set is the definitive chronicle of the artist’s legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band.

Among Bob Dylan’s many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes have long fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the early 1960s, Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through the release of three historic albums, the groundbreaking watershed single “Like A Rolling Stone,” a controversial and legendary ‘electric’ performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and wildly polarizing tours of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Dylan’s mercurial rise and prodigious outpouring of work during that decade came to an abrupt halt in July 1966 when he was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident in upstate New York.

Over the years, the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexed fans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail for Dylanologists. What’s on the rest of those reels?

Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, every salvageable recording from the tapes including recently discovered early gems recorded in the “Red Room” of Dylan’s home in upstate New York. Garth Hudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust to restore the deteriorating tapes to pristine sound, with much of this music preserved digitally for the first time.

The decision was made to present The Basement Tapes Complete as intact as possible. Also, unlike the official 1975 release, these performances are presented as close as possible to the way they were originally recorded and sounded back in the summer of 1967.

The tracks on The Basement Tapes Complete run in mostly chronological order based on Garth Hudson’s numbering system.

Track listing:

CD

Edge of the Ocean

  1. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It

  2. Roll on Train

  3. Mr. Blue

  4. Belshazzar

  5. I Forgot to Remember to Forget

  6. You Win Again

  7. Still in Town

  8. Waltzing with Sin

  9. Big River [Take 1]

  10. Big River [Take 2]

  11. Folsom Prison Blues

  12. Bells of Rhymney

  13. Spanish is the Loving Tongue

  14. Under Control

  15. Ol’ Roison the Beau

  16. I’m Guilty of Loving You

  17. Cool Water

  18. The Auld Triangle

  19. Po’ Lazarus

  20. I’m a Fool for You [Take 1]

  21. I’m a Fool for You [Take 2]

CD

  1. Johnny Todd

  2. Tupelo

  3. Kickin’ My Dog Around

  4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg [Take 1]

  5. See You Later Allen Ginsberg [Take 2]

  6. Tiny Montgomery

  7. Big Dog

  8. I’m Your Teenage Prayer

  9. Four Strong Winds

  10. The French Girl [Take 1]

  11. The French Girl [Take 2]

  12. Joshua Gone Barbados

  13. I’m in the Mood

  14. Baby Ain’t That Fine

  15. Rock, Salt and Nails

  16. 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

CD

  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 [Take 1]

  8. Million Dollar Bash [Take 2]

  9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread [Take 1]

  10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread [Take 2]

  11. I’m Not There

  12. Please Mrs. Henry

  13. Crash on the Levee [Take 1]

  14. Crash on the Levee [Take 2]

  15. Lo and Behold! [Take 1]

  16. Lo and Behold! [Take 2]

  17. You Aint’ Goin’ Nowhere [Take 1]

  18. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere [Take 2]

  19. I Shall be Released [Take 1]

  20. I Shall be Released [Take 2]

  21. This Wheel’s on Fire

  22. Too Much of Nothing [Take 1]

  23. Too Much of Nothing [Take 2]

CD

  1. Tears of Rage [Take 1]

  2. Tears of Rage [Take 2]

  3. Tears of Rage [Take 3]

  4. Quinn the Eskimo [Take 1]

  5. Quinn the Eskimo [Take 2]

  6. Open the Door Homer [Take 1]

  7. Open the Door Homer [Take 2]

  8. Open the Door Homer [Take 3]

  9. Nothing Was Delivered [Take 1]

  10. Nothing Was Delivered [Take 2]

  11. Nothing Was Delivered [Take 3]

  12. All American Boy

  13. Sign on the Cross

  14. Odds and Ends [Alternate version]

  15. Odds and Ends [Take 2]

  16. Get Your Rocks Off

  17. Clothes Line Saga

  18. Apple Suckling Tree [Take 1]

  19. Apple Suckling Tree [Take 2]

  20. Don’t Ya Tell Henry

  21. Bourbon Street

CD

  1. Blowin’ in the Wind

  2. One Too Many Mornings

  3. A Satisfied Mind

  4. It Ain’t Me, Babe

  5. Ain’t No More Cane [Take 1]

  6. Ain’t No More Cane [Alternate version]

  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 [Take 1]

  25. All You Have to do is Dream [Take 2]

CD

  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

  20. The Spanish Song [Take 1]

  21. The Spanish Song [Take 2]

 

 

 

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