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The Basement Tapes is the sixteenth album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his second with the Band.It was released on June 26, 1975, by Columbia Records.Two-thirds of the album's 24 tracks feature Dylan on lead vocals backed by the Band, and were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, in the lapse between the release of Blonde on Blonde and the subsequent ...
A Basement Tapes original covered by the Band on Music From Big Pink, and also released on the official 1975 album. "Tears of Rage" (takes 1, 2, 3) Dylan, Richard Manuel: The first take of one of the most famous Basement Tapes songs. The song has gone on to be one of the most covered tunes from the basement sessions.
The liner notes for The Basement Tapes give the following personnel credits for all songs on the album: Bob Dylan – acoustic guitar, piano, vocals; Robbie Robertson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, vocals; Richard Manuel – piano, drums, harmonica, vocals; Rick Danko – electric bass, mandolin, vocals; Garth Hudson – organ, clavinet, accordion, tenor saxophone, piano; Levon ...
The Basement Tapes is a 1975 studio album by Bob Dylan and the Band. The Basement Tapes may also refer to: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete, a 2014 compilation album by Bob Dylan and the Band; The recordings made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, see: List of Basement Tapes songs
It was one of fourteen songs from the Basement Tapes sessions that were circulated by Dylan's publishers in an effort to get other artists to record them. [7] Byrds bassist Chris Hillman has stated that he personally received tapes in late 1967 or early 1968 that contained, among others, "Nothing Was Delivered" and "You Ain't Going Nowhere."
The most complete version was White Bear's A Tree with Roots, which contains 108 tracks from the "Basement" sessions. [23] The 139 track The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete finally supplanted all actual bootleg releases of the material.
When rumors and acetates of some basement recordings began to surface, the album Great White Wonder appeared in a few record shops in 1969 as one of the first bootleg records. Dylan's original recordings remained commercially unavailable until 1975, when Columbia Records released 16 of Dylan's songs on The Basement Tapes album. [17]
The Basement Tapes Complete is the first time the complete sessions, containing 138 tracks of which 117 were not previously issued, have been officially released. Of these tracks 23 are alternate takes, making 115 distinct songs in the set of which some heard in two or three different takes.