The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 Bob Dylan & The Band

• 1 Open the Door Homer 02:53
• 2 Odds and Ends 01:48
• 3 Million Dollar Bash 02:53
• 4 One Too Many Mornings 03:23
• 5 I Don't Hurt Anymore 02:15
• 6 Ain't No More Cane 01:58
• 7 Crash on the Levee 02:06
• 8 Tears of Rage 04:15
• 9 Dress It up, Better Have it All 02:53
• 10 I'm Not There 05:13
• 11 Johnny Todd 02:05
• 12 Too Much of Nothing 02:54
• 13 Quinn the Eskimo 02:16
• 14 Get Your Rocks Off 03:46
• 15 Santa-Fe 02:08
• 16 Silent Weekend 03:01
• 17 Clothes Line Saga 02:59
• 18 Please Mrs. Henry 02:34
• 19 I Shall be Released 03:58
• 20 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 02:48
• 21 Lo and Behold! 02:54
• 22 Minstrel Boy 01:40
• 23 Tiny Montgomery 02:57
• 24 All You Have to Do Is Dream 03:20
• 25 Goin' to Acapulco 05:36
• 26 900 Miles from My Home 02:14
• 27 One for the Road 04:49
• 28 I'm Alright 01:46
• 29 Blowin' in the Wind 06:36
• 30 Apple Suckling Tree 02:51
• 31 Nothing Was Delivered 04:26
• 32 Folsom Prison Blues 02:48
• 33 This Wheel's on Fire 03:55
• 34 Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread 02:16
• 35 Don't Ya Tell Henry 02:31
• 36 Baby, Won't You be My Baby 02:53
• 37 Sign on the Cross 07:21
• 38 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 02:46
• Total Runtime 02:01:45

Info for The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11

Double album set of 38 highlights from Dylan s legendary 1967 sessions with The Band. Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes. 56-page booklet with extensive liner notes and rare photographs

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 UK. 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.

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 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.

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 thedeteriorating 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.

Bob Dylan, acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals
Rick Danko, bass, vocals
Garth Hudson, organ
Richard Manuel, piano, drums, vocals
Robbie Robertson, electric guitar, drums, vocals
Levon Helm, drums, vocals (select tracks, unknown)

Recorded June–October 1967 at “Big Pink," West Saugerties, New York

Digitally remastered

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