Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (2014)
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Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings has released Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 on November 4. Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes – many found only recently – this historic six-disc set is the definitive chronicle of the artist’s legendary 1967 recording sessions with members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band.

Among Bob Dylan’s many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes have long fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the early 1960s, Dylan reached unparalleled heights across 1965 and 1966 through the release of three historic albums, the groundbreaking watershed single “Like A Rolling Stone,” a controversial and legendary ‘electric’ performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and wildly polarizing tours of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Dylan’s mercurial rise and prodigious outpouring of work during that decade came to an abrupt halt in July 1966 when he was reported to have been in a serious motorcycle accident in upstate New York.
Recovering from his injuries and away from the public eye for the first time in years, 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, and Dylan’s music from the summer of 1967 began seeping into the fabric of popular culture, penetrating the souls of music lovers everywhere. With each passing year, more and more fans sought out this rare contraband, desperate to hear this new music from the legendary Bob Dylan.

The actual recordings, however, 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 US and UK, with John Rockwell, of The New York Times, calling it “one of the greatest albums in the history of American popular music,” Paul Nelson, in Rolling Stone, praising the tracks as “the hardest, toughest, sweetest, saddest, funniest, wisest songs I know”‘ and the Washington Post noting that “…Dylan has to rank as the single greatest artist modern American pop music has produced.” Robert Christgau gave the album an A+ rating in the Village Voice, where it topped the annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.

Over the years, the songs on The Basement Tapes have haunted and perplexed fans, with the recordings themselves representing a Holy Grail for Dylanologists. What’s on the rest of those reels?
The Basement Tapes Complete brings together, for the first time ever, 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.

Tracklist:

1-1. Bob Dylan – Edge of the Ocean (02:20)
1-2. Bob Dylan – My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It (01:34)
1-3. Bob Dylan – Roll on Train (02:00)
1-4. Bob Dylan – Mr. Blue (01:52)
1-5. Bob Dylan – Belshazzar (03:22)
1-6. Bob Dylan – I Forgot to Remember to Forget (03:19)
1-7. Bob Dylan – You Win Again (02:43)
1-8. Bob Dylan – Still in Town (03:04)
1-9. Bob Dylan – Waltzing with Sin (02:48)
1-10. Bob Dylan – Big River (Take 1) (00:43)
1-11. Bob Dylan – Big River (Take 2) (02:23)
1-12. Bob Dylan – Folsom Prison Blues (02:46)
1-13. Bob Dylan – Bells of Rhymney (03:16)
1-14. Bob Dylan – Spanish is the Loving Tongue (03:53)
1-15. Bob Dylan – Under Control (02:50)
1-16. Bob Dylan – Ol’ Roison the Beau (04:55)
1-17. Bob Dylan – I’m Guilty of Loving You (01:09)
1-18. Bob Dylan – Cool Water (03:03)
1-19. Bob Dylan – The Auld Triangle (05:47)
1-20. Bob Dylan – Po’ Lazarus (00:59)
1-21. Bob Dylan – I’m a Fool for You (Take 1) (01:05)
1-22. Bob Dylan – I’m a Fool for You (Take 2) (02:34)
2-1. Bob Dylan – Johnny Todd (02:05)
2-2. Bob Dylan – Tupelo (02:21)
2-3. Bob Dylan – Kickin’ My Dog Around (02:43)
2-4. Bob Dylan – See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1) (00:29)
2-5. Bob Dylan – See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2) (00:51)
2-6. Bob Dylan – Tiny Montgomery (02:56)
2-7. Bob Dylan – Big Dog (00:23)
2-8. Bob Dylan – I’m Your Teenage Prayer (03:52)
2-9. Bob Dylan – Four Strong Winds (03:41)
2-10. Bob Dylan – The French Girl (Take 1) (02:12)
2-11. Bob Dylan – The French Girl (Take 2) (03:00)
2-12. Bob Dylan – Joshua Gone Barbados (02:45)
2-13. Bob Dylan – I’m in the Mood (01:58)
2-14. Bob Dylan – Baby Ain’t That Fine (02:10)
2-15. Bob Dylan – Rock, Salt and Nails (04:37)
2-16. Bob Dylan – A Fool Such As I (02:57)
2-17. Bob Dylan – Song for Canada (04:30)
2-18. Bob Dylan – People Get Ready (03:15)
2-19. Bob Dylan – I Don’t Hurt Anymore (02:15)
2-20. Bob Dylan – Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (03:03)
2-21. Bob Dylan – One Man’s Loss (03:52)
2-22. Bob Dylan – Lock Your Door (00:22)
2-23. Bob Dylan – Baby, Won’t You be My Baby (02:52)
2-24. Bob Dylan – Try Me Little Girl (01:38)
2-25. Bob Dylan – I Can’t Make it Alone (03:34)
2-26. Bob Dylan – Don’t You Try Me Now (03:11)
3-1. Bob Dylan – Young but Daily Growing (05:40)
3-2. Bob Dylan – Bonnie Ship the Diamond (03:21)
3-3. Bob Dylan – The Hills of Mexico (03:05)
3-4. Bob Dylan – Down on Me (00:42)
3-5. Bob Dylan – One for the Road (04:49)
3-6. Bob Dylan – I’m Alright (01:45)
3-7. Bob Dylan – Million Dollar Bash (Take 1) (02:52)
3-8. Bob Dylan – Million Dollar Bash (Take 2) (02:34)
3-9. Bob Dylan – Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1) (01:50)
3-10. Bob Dylan – Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2) (02:15)
3-11. Bob Dylan – I’m Not There (05:12)
3-12. Bob Dylan – Please Mrs. Henry (02:34)
3-13. Bob Dylan – Crash on the Levee (Take 1) (02:10)
3-14. Bob Dylan – Crash on the Levee (Take 2) (02:05)
3-15. Bob Dylan – Lo and Behold! (Take 1) (02:53)
3-16. Bob Dylan – Lo and Behold! (Take 2) (02:49)
3-17. Bob Dylan – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1) (02:47)
3-18. Bob Dylan – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 2) (02:45)
3-19. Bob Dylan – I Shall be Released (Take 1) (04:04)
3-20. Bob Dylan – I Shall be Released (Take 2) (03:57)
3-21. Bob Dylan – This Wheel’s on Fire (03:54)
3-22. Bob Dylan – Too Much of Nothing (Take 1) (03:03)
3-23. Bob Dylan – Too Much of Nothing (Take 2) (02:50)
4-1. Bob Dylan – Tears of Rage (Take 1) (04:03)
4-2. Bob Dylan – Tears of Rage (Take 2) (02:30)
4-3. Bob Dylan – Tears of Rage (Take 3) (04:14)
4-4. Bob Dylan – Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1) (02:02)
4-5. Bob Dylan – Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2) (02:16)
4-6. Bob Dylan – Open the Door Homer (Take 1) (02:52)
4-7. Bob Dylan – Open the Door Homer (Take 2) (00:58)
4-8. Bob Dylan – Open the Door Homer (Take 3) (03:14)
4-9. Bob Dylan – Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1) (04:26)
4-10. Bob Dylan – Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2) (03:43)
4-11. Bob Dylan – Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3) (00:33)
4-12. Bob Dylan – All American Boy (03:58)
4-13. Bob Dylan – Sign on the Cross (07:21)
4-14. Bob Dylan – Odds and Ends ((Alternate Version) Take 1) (01:48)
4-15. Bob Dylan – Odds and Ends (Take 2) (01:48)
4-16. Bob Dylan – Get Your Rocks Off (03:45)
4-17. Bob Dylan – Clothes Line Saga (02:59)
4-18. Bob Dylan – Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1) (02:40)
4-19. Bob Dylan – Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2) (02:50)
4-20. Bob Dylan – Don’t Ya Tell Henry (02:30)
4-21. Bob Dylan – Bourbon Street (05:04)
5-1. Bob Dylan – Blowin’ in the Wind (06:35)
5-2. Bob Dylan – One Too Many Mornings (03:23)
5-3. Bob Dylan – A Satisfied Mind (02:00)
5-4. Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me, Babe (03:32)
5-5. Bob Dylan – Ain’t No More Cane (Take 1) (02:41)
5-6. Bob Dylan – Ain’t No More Cane ((Alternate Version) Take 2) (01:57)
5-7. Bob Dylan – My Woman She’s A-Leavin’ (02:30)
5-8. Bob Dylan – Santa-Fe (02:08)
5-9. Bob Dylan – Mary Lou, I Love You Too (02:29)
5-10. Bob Dylan – Dress It up, Better Have it All (02:53)
5-11. Bob Dylan – Minstrel Boy (01:39)
5-12. Bob Dylan – Silent Weekend (03:00)
5-13. Bob Dylan – What’s it Gonna be When it Comes Up (03:03)
5-14. Bob Dylan – 900 Miles from My Home (02:13)
5-15. Bob Dylan – Wildwood Flower (02:11)
5-16. Bob Dylan – One Kind Favor (03:33)
5-17. Bob Dylan – She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain (01:39)
5-18. Bob Dylan – It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee (02:08)
5-19. Bob Dylan – Wild Wolf (03:34)
5-20. Bob Dylan – Goin’ to Acapulco (05:36)
5-21. Bob Dylan – Gonna Get You Now (01:30)
5-22. Bob Dylan – If I Were a Carpenter (02:23)
5-23. Bob Dylan – Confidential (01:36)
5-24. Bob Dylan – All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1) (03:55)
5-25. Bob Dylan – All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2) (03:19)
6-1. Bob Dylan – 2 Dollars and 99 Cents (02:35)
6-2. Bob Dylan – Jelly Bean (02:58)
6-3. Bob Dylan – Any Time (03:17)
6-4. Bob Dylan – Down by the Station (01:29)
6-5. Bob Dylan – Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved (03:03)
6-6. Bob Dylan – That’s the Breaks (04:18)
6-7. Bob Dylan – Pretty Mary (03:11)
6-8. Bob Dylan – Will the Circle be Unbroken (02:08)
6-9. Bob Dylan – King of France (03:53)
6-10. Bob Dylan – She’s on My Mind Again (04:18)
6-11. Bob Dylan – Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (03:20)
6-12. Bob Dylan – On a Rainy Afternoon (02:52)
6-13. Bob Dylan – I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart (02:42)
6-14. Bob Dylan – Next Time on the Highway (02:20)
6-15. Bob Dylan – Northern Claim (02:04)
6-16. Bob Dylan – Love is Only Mine (01:50)
6-17. Bob Dylan – Silhouettes (01:52)
6-18. Bob Dylan – Bring it on Home (03:07)
6-19. Bob Dylan – Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (02:09)
6-20. Bob Dylan – The Spanish Song (Take 1) (02:47)
6-21. Bob Dylan – The Spanish Song (Take 2) (02:15)
6-22. Bob Dylan – 900 Miles from My Home / Confidential (02:26)

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