Bob Dylan, The basement tapes, new, 6CD

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 New, but not sealed.
Track Listing
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)

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

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)

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

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)

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/Bonus Track)
21. The Spanish Song (Take 2/Bonus Track)
22. Untitled

Details
Number of CDs:    6
Recording Type:    Studio
Recording Mode:    Stereo

Album Notes
Preserving newly written Bob Dylan songs for copyright is the reason why the Band’s Garth Hudson rolled tape at Big Pink, but The Basement Tapes were something much more than songwriting demos. Greil Marcus dubbed it a celebration of the “old, weird America” in his 1997 book Invisible Republic, connecting these songs to Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, adding an extra layer of myth to tapes that were shrouded in mystery from the moment bootlegs started to circulate. The Basement Tapes Complete strengthens portions of that legend while simultaneously puncturing it. Certainly, the six-disc box -- its first five discs assembled according to Hudson’s numbering system, with the sixth disc collecting sessions discovered later -- feels substantially different from the LP released in 1975, where the overall picture was distorted by Robbie Robertson adding sometimes significant overdubs and including Band recordings that weren’t cut during those seven months in 1967. This is not a minor thing. These sly revisions gave the 1975 album a slight veneer that’s been stripped away by this unfussy, startlingly clear remastering, but the big difference is that the chronological sequence on The Basement Tapes Complete gives the set a narrative. The first two discs are the band warming up, playing a bunch of old songs that are often of more recent vintage than the old, weird America reputation suggests -- there’s a clutch of Johnny Cash songs, a couple from Ian Tyson, a song apiece from Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, and Dallas Frazier, a cross section that underscores how this was the birth of what would be called Americana -- and then on the second two discs, Dylan starts tying these disparate strands together on his originals. Many of these songs, usually the wildest and woolliest, showed up in 1975, so the news here arises from the sometimes quite different alternate takes and the major tunes that have been bootlegged widely over the years: the ghostly “I’m Not There,” the winding modern spiritual “Sign on the Cross,” the rambling, vulgar blues “Get Your Rocks Off,” and the even wilder “Bourbon Street.” These songs are necessary additions to the canon, but what gives The Basement Tapes their real resonance is the stuff that happens in the margin. It’s the half-remembered covers, it’s sterling throwaways like “Silent Weekend,” it’s Dylan turning his early songs upside down, it’s hearing Bob and the Band stumble around as they’re trying to find a groove. This is the wondrous thing about The Basement Tapes: this is music made with no expectation that anybody outside of a small circle would ever hear it. Of course, the opposite happened. The Basement Tapes leaked out and became an enduring part of the legacy of both Dylan and the Band but also American music as a whole, as it stands at the crossroads of so many different strands of American culture. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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