Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes. Revised and updated edition

It’s 1967, the Summer of Love, and Bob Dylan is holed up in Woodstock with a group of musicians once known as The Hawks, laying down a set of recordings that will soon turn the music world on its head. These recordings the Basement Tapes would not be released commercially by Dylan at first, but would emerge in the form of cover versions by acts such as The Byrds, Manfred Mann, and Peter Paul & Mary. Together, they would inspire a homespun, backtobasics approach in the work of The Beatles, the Stones, the Grateful Dead, and many others, while also kickstarting the entire Americana genre. It’s 2014, the summer of the icebucket challenge, and author and musician Sid Griffin is holed up in the Dylan office in New York City, where he has been invited to listen to hours of neverbeforeheard Basement Tapes recordings. The result is this fully revised and expanded edition of Million Dollar Bash published to coincide with the release of dozens of those recordings as part of the Bootleg Series, for which the author contributed liner notes, plus Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, a major new documentary about the period, and the new T Bone Burnett-produced Lost On The River album in which Griffin shines even greater light on this pivotal yet often misunderstood moment in popular music history.