Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
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Artist: Bob Dylan & The BandBrand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-03-31
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Odds and Ends - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Million Dollar Bash - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Yazoo Street Scandal - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Goin' to Acapulco - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Katie's Been Gone - The Band, Bob Dylan
- and Behold! - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Bessie Smith - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Clothes Line Saga - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Apple Suckling Tree - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Please, Mrs. Henry - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Tears of Rage - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Too Much of Nothing - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Ain't No More Cane - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Ruben Remus - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Tiny Montgomery - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Don't Ya Tell Henry - The Band, Bob Dylan
- Nothing Was Delivered - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Open the Door, Homer - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
- Long Distance Operator - The Band, Bob Dylan
- This Wheel's on Fire - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
Music reviews of The Basement Tapes
Music Review: It Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Rating: 5 Stars
This is one of my top 5 Bob Dylan records, and that says a LOT given a) the sheer breadth and quality of the man's recording career and b) the incomplete nature of this compilation. It is definitely the most fun album that Bob ever recorded, which is perhaps due to the fact that these songs were never meant for official release, something that has been mentioned here before. The style of the record is loose and informal and the songs are catchy, relatively short and upbeat. Some tracks don't have any drum accompaniment and sound very stripped down (Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread, Crash on the Levee, Clothesline Saga, etc.). Dylan's voice is unbridled but relaxed here and gives a lot of life and weight to these songs without taking away from their simplicity. As a fan of The Band, I was overjoyed to hear so many examples of their immense versatility--Manuel shines on piano and some truly amazing vocals on tracks such as "Long Distance Operator" and "Orange Juice Blues." Robertson had me smiling ear to ear the first time I heard him crashing around on drums for "Apple Suckling Tree," and "You Ain't Going Nowhere." And Hudson's organ is just beyond explanation. He really puts everything together. The Band's own songs are excellent too, whether or not they technically "belong" on this album. The mix of voices (Dylan, Danko, Manuel and Helm) create a texture and range that are not heard on other Dylan albums.
This is not a "concept" record nor is it a good example of a cohesive Dylan album. These are just lighthearted, warm, creative songs that really do sound like they came straight out of the artists' home. There is a casualness and an intimacy here that is lost in big studio productions like "Blonde on Blonde" which shares certain stylistic elements with "The Basement Tapes," but takes a lot more from horns, harmonica, etc. The lyrics are all classic Dylan, but you won't find any epics like "Sad Eyed Lady" or "Desolation Row" here--its mostly humorous stories and character studies on such interesting folks as "Tiny Montgomery," "Bessie Smith" and "Ruben Remus." It has been said that around this time, Dylan was writing about 10-15 songs per month, and you can just feel the creative peak that he was reaching here. This album really never gets old and it still feels fresh in its true Americana sincerity. Listening to it is like visiting old friends. I just wish that they would release the rest of the Basement Tape songs so that we can have a complete understanding of the true genius that manifested during the months spent at Big Pink. Some of my favorites here are: "Odds and Ends," "Orange Juice Blues," "Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread," "You Ain't Going Nowhere," "Open the Door, Richard" and "Nothing was Delivered."
Description of The Basement Tapes
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. --Sam SutherlandGeneral CDs
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