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| Sales Rank: | 2489 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 11/30/2008 7:14:33 AM MST |
| Price Used: | $10.95 |
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| Release Date: | 1990-10-25 |
| Label: | Sony |
| UPC: | 746433682238 |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Published By: | Sony |
| ASIN: | B000002552 |
| Category: | Music |
Tracks on The Basement Tapes by Sony
- Odds and Ends
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) - Bob Dylan, Manuel, Richard
- Million Dollar Bash
- Yazoo Street Scandal - Bob Dylan, Robertson, Robbie
- Goin' to Acapulco
- Katie's Been Gone - Bob Dylan, Robertson, Robbie
- Lo and Behold
- Bessie Smith - Bob Dylan, Danko, Rick
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Please, Mrs. Henry
- Tears of Rage
- Too Much of Nothing
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
- Ain't No More Cane - Bob Dylan, Traditional
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
- Ruben Remus - Bob Dylan, Robertson, Robbie
- Tiny Montgomery
- You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
- Don't Ya Tell Henry
- Nothing Was Delivered
- Open the Door, Homer
- Long Distance Operator
- This Wheel's on Fire
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Amazon.com essential recording
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 Sutherland
Customer Reviews
It Can Be Very Easily Done - Reviewed on 2008-09-17
2 customers found this review helpful.
Okay, a lot of this material has seen official release, and it's not likely to get re-packaged or augmented any time soon, so here's whatcha gotta do: download this from someplace legal (like here) so Bob will get his money (give him a string bean -- he's a hungry man!). Actually, just download these: Odds And Ends, Million Dollar Bash, Goin' To Acapulco, Lo And Behold!, Clothes Line Saga, Apple Suckling Tree, Please Mrs. Henry, Tears Of Rage, Too Much Of Nothing, Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread, Crash on The Levee, Tiny Montgomery, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Nothing Was Delivered, Open the Door Homer and This Wheel's On Fire.
Then get Quinn the Eskimo from Biograph. The Bootleg Series 1-3 has Santa Fe and I Shall Be Released. I'm Not There is on the soundtrack album of the same name. You now have twenty tracks with a running time of about 62 minutes. Burn it. The result gets five stars. This is the album that goes between Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding on your Dylan shelf and in the artistic chronology. Yeah, it's rough (it's a home recording), but it's real. In lieu of a new package, cut out a picture of Bob and slide it into the jewel case. Tell him I said it was alright.
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Book Subjects
- Country-Rock
- Folk-Rock
- Pop
- Pop/Rock Music
- Popular Music
- Rock
- Rock & Roll
- Rock/Pop
- Singer/Songwriter
- United States of America
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