Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes
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Artist: Bob Dylan & the BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
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: Strictly For Aficionados
Rating: 3 Stars
Parts of this review were used in a review of The "Genuine" Basement Tapes from this same period. I make most of the same objections here for this set as I did there, except if you need to choose between the two the quality of the production values here is greater than on the former. Although the more I listen to Volume 5 of the "genuine" with that "Joshua Gone Barbados" and hard to hear but mesmerizing cover by Dylan of " I Forgot To Remember to Forget" and a couple of others I am starting to waiver.
In a review of Bob Dylan's "The Freewheeling Bob Dylan" elsewhere in this space I noted:
"In reviewing Bob Dylan's 1965 classic album "Bringing All Back Home" (you know, the one where he went electric) I mentioned that it seemed hard to believe now that both as to the performer as well as to what was being attempted that anyone would take umbrage at a performer using an electric guitar to tell a folk story (or any story for that matter). I further pointed out that it is not necessary to go into all the details of what or what did not happen with Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 to know that one should be glad, glad as hell, that Bob Dylan continued to listen to his own drummer and carry on a career based on electronic music."
And I am still glad of that fact. What I am less enamored of is the virtual cottage industry that has grown up around various, bootleg, basement, cellar, barn, attic or other odd locations versions of Dylan's work, electric or acoustic. This archival material is nice for folk, rock and cultural historians but I would argue that Mr. Bob Dylan's usually well-produced albums are after over forty years more than enough to listen to without having to get into the minutia of his career. And, somehow, left to feel that one has missed something without this other more esoteric material. That same sentiment applies to the virtuoso work of The Band in their heyday. And certainly to their joint work here. In short, this two disc set of practices, outtakes, cuts, etc. done with The Band while Dylan was "hiding" out in rural New York after his motorcycle accident are strictly for aficionados.
That said, for those who insist on getting their little hands on this material here is the "scoop". "Tears Of Rage" ; "You Ain't Going Nowhere"; "Yazoo Street Scandal" and "Goin' To Acapulco" are what you are getting this CD for. That does not seem like enough given what I mentioned above.
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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