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Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes (1975) (Remaster Edit 2009)
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 & Mary, and numerous other acolytes, as well as through myriad unauthorized 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 as well as the presciently lo-fi The Band. At a time when most rock culture was entranced with its post-atomic origins, these songs sounded timeless, plunging into pre-industrial folk, turn of the (20th) century barrelhouse and blues, and crackling, vintage rock & roll excursions with offhand verve and a thrilling disregard for what was hip. Time has only reinforced their visionary power...S.Sutherland
The official release of The Basement Tapes -- which were first heard on a 1968 bootleg called The Great White Wonder -- plays with history somewhat, as Robbie Robertson overemphasizes the Band's status in the sessions, making them out to be equally active to Dylan, adding in demos not cut at the sessions and overdubbing their recordings to flesh them out. As many bootlegs (most notably the complete five-disc series) reveal, this isn't entirely true and that the Band were nowhere near as active as Dylan, but that ultimately is a bit like nitpicking, since the music here (including the Band's) is astonishingly good. The party line on The Basement Tapes is that it is Americana, as Dylan and the Band pick up the weirdness inherent in old folk, country, and blues tunes, but it transcends mere historical arcana by being lively, humorous, full-bodied performances. Dylan never sounded as loose, nor was he ever as funny as he is here, and this positively revels in its weird, wild character. For all the apparent antecedents -- and the allusions are sly and obvious in equal measures -- this is truly Dylan's show, as he majestically evokes old myths and creates new ones, resulting in a crazy quilt of blues, humor, folk, tall tales, inside jokes, and rock. The Band pretty much pick up where Dylan left off, even singing a couple of his tunes, but they play it a little straight, on both their rockers and ballads. Not a bad thing at all, since this actually winds up providing context for the wild, mercurial brilliance of Dylan's work -- and, taken together, the results (especially in this judiciously compiled form; expert song selection, even if there's a bit too much Band) rank among the greatest American music ever made...S. T. Erlewine
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 177 MB
Genre : Folk- Rock
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Tracklist:
CD 1
01 Odds and Ends 1:47
02 Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) / The Band 3:39
03 Million Dollar Bash 2:32
04 Yazoo Street Scandal / The Band 3:29
05 Goin' to Acapulco 5:27
06 Katie's Been Gone / The Band 2:46
07 Lo and Behold! 2:46
08 Bessie Smith / The Band 4:18
09 Clothes Line Saga 2:58
10 Apple Suckling Tree 2:48
11 Please, Mrs. Henry 2:33
12 Tears of Rage 4:15
CD 2
01 Too Much of Nothing 3:04
02 Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread 2:15
03 Ain't No More Cane / The Band 3:58
04 Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) 2:04
05 Ruben Remus / The Band 3:16
06 Tiny Montgomery 2:47
07 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 2:42
08 Don't Ya Tell Henry / The Band 3:13
09 Nothing Was Delivered 4:23
10 Open the Door, Homer 2:49
11 Long Distance Operator / The Band 3:39
12 This Wheel's on Fire 3:52
