Bob Dylan And The Band - The Basement Tapes: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11

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2016 Grammy Award winner - Best Historical Album

The definitive chronicle of Dylan's legendary 1967 sessions with The Band!

Historic 6-disc set includes 138 tracks

Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes

Exclusive 120-page deluxe-bound book containing rare and unseen photographs and memorabila

The Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, every salvageable recording from Bob Dylan's legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band.

Having transformed music and culture during the early 1960s, Bob Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through the release of three historic albums, the watershed single "Like A Rolling Stone," a controvversial and legendary "electric" performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and tours of the U.S., Britain and Europe. Dylan's mercurial rise and prodigious outpouring of work stopped in July 1966 when he was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident in upstate New York.

While recovering, Dylan ensconced himself, along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and later, Levon Helm, in the basement of a small house dubbed "Big Pink" by the group, in West Saugerties, New York. This collective, which would come to be known as Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded more than a hundred songs over the next several months including traditional covers, wry and humorous ditties, off-the-cuff performances and most important, dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan songs, including future classics "I Shall Be Released," "The Mighty Quinn," "This Wheel's On Fire" and "You Ain't Going Nowhere."

When rumors and rare acetates of some of these recordings began surfacing, it created a curiosity strong enough to fuel an entirely new segment of the music business: the bootleg record. In 1969, an album mysteriously titled Great White Wonder began showing up in record shops around the country carrying this new contraband Dylan music.

The actual recordings remained commercially unavailable until 1975 when Columbia Records released a scant 16 of them on The Basement Tapes album (that album also included eight new songs by The Band, without Dylan).

A critical and popular success, The Basement Tapes went Top 10 in the U.S. and U.K., with John Rockwell of The New York Times calling it "one of the greatest albums in the history of American popular music." Still, over the years the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexed fans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail for Dylanologists, causing them to wonder "What's on the rest of those reels?"

The answer arrives via The Basement Tapes Complete, which brings together for the first time every salvageable recording from the tapes including recently discovered early gems recorded in the "Red Room" of Dylan's home in upstate New York. Garth Hudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust to restore the deteriorating tapes to pristine sound, with much of this music preserved digitally for the first time.

The decision was made to present The Basement Tapes Complete as intact as possible. Also, unlike the official 1975 release, these performances are presented as close as possible to the way they were originally recorded and sounded back in the summer of 1967. The tracks on The Basement Tapes Complete run in mostly chronological order based on Garth Hudson's numbering system.

Disc 1

1. Edge of the Ocean

2. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It

3. Roll on Train

4. Mr. Blue

5. Belshazzar

6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget

7. You Win Again

8. Still in Town

9. Waltzing with Sin

10. Big River (Take 1)

11. Big River (Take 2)

12. Folsom Prison Blues

13. Bells of Rhymney

14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue

15. Under Control

16. Ol' Roison the Beau

17. I'm Guilty of Loving You

18. Cool Water

19. The Auld Triangle

20. Po' Lazarus

21. I'm a Fool for You (Take 1)

22. I'm a Fool for You (Take 2)

Disc 2

1. Johnny Todd

2. Tupelo

3. Kickin' My Dog Around

4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)

5. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)

6. Tiny Montgomery

7. Big Dog

8. I'm Your Teenage Prayer

9. Four Strong Winds

10. The French Girl (Take 1)

11. The French Girl (Take 2)

12. Joshua Gone Barbados

13. I'm in the Mood

14. Baby Ain't That Fine

15. Rock, Salt and Nails

16. A Fool Such As I

17. Song for Canada

18. People Get Ready

19. I Don't Hurt Anymore

20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw

21. One Man's Loss

22. Lock Your Door

23. Baby, Won't You be My Baby

24. Try Me Little Girl

25. I Can't Make it Alone

26. Don't You Try Me Now

Disc 3

1. Young but Daily Growing

2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond

3. The Hills of Mexico

4. Down on Me

5. One for the Road

6. I'm Alright

7. Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)

8. Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)

9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1)

10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2)

11. I'm Not There

12. Please Mrs. Henry

13. Crash on the Levee (Take 1)

14. Crash on the Levee (Take 2)

15. Lo and Behold! (Take 1)

16. Lo and Behold! (Take 2)

17. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 1)

18. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 2)

19. I Shall be Released (Take 1)

20. I Shall be Released (Take 2)

21. This Wheel's on Fire

22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)

23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)

Disc 4

1. Tears of Rage (Take 1)

2. Tears of Rage (Take 2)

3. Tears of Rage (Take 3)

4. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1)

5. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2)

6. Open the Door Homer (Take 1)

7. Open the Door Homer (Take 2)

8. Open the Door Homer (Take 3)

9. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)

10. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)

11. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)

12. All American Boy

13. Sign on the Cross

14. Odds and Ends (Take 1)

15. Odds and Ends (Take 2)

16. Get Your Rocks Off

17. Clothes Line Saga

18. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)

19. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)

20. Don't Ya Tell Henry

21. Bourbon Street

Disc 5

1. Blowin' in the Wind

2. One Too Many Mornings

3. A Satisfied Mind

4. It Ain't Me, Babe

5. Ain't No More Cane (Take 1)

6. Ain't No More Cane (Take 2)

7. My Woman She's A-Leavin'

8. Santa-Fe

9. Mary Lou, I Love You Too

10. Dress it up, Better Have it All

11. Minstrel Boy

12. Silent Weekend

13. What's it Gonna be When it Comes Up

14. 900 Miles from My Home

15. Wildwood Flower

16. One Kind Favor

17. She'll be Coming Round the Mountain

18. It's the Flight of the Bumblebee

19. Wild Wolf

20. Goin' to Acapulco

21. Gonna Get You Now

22. If I Were A Carpenter

23. Confidential

24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)

25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)

Disc 6

1. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents

2. Jelly Bean

3. Any Time

4. Down by the Station

5. Hallelujah, I've Just Been Moved

6. That's the Breaks

7. Pretty Mary

8. Will the Circle be Unbroken

9. King of France

10. She's on My Mind Again

11. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad

12. On a Rainy Afternoon

13. I Can't Come in with a Broken Heart

14. Next Time on the Highway

15. Northern Claim

16. Love is Only Mine

17. Silhouettes

18. Bring it on Home

19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

20. The Spanish Song (Take 1)

21. The Spanish Song (Take 2)

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