BOB DYLAN & THE BAND. "THE HISTORIC BASEMENT TAPES" DOUBLE LP. UK 1975. CBS.
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Label: CBS – CBS 88147, CBS – 88147, CBS – S 88147 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: UK Released: 1975 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock A1 Odds And Ends 1:43 A2 Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) Written-By – R. Manuel* 3:40 A3 Million Dollar Bash 2:30 A4 Yazoo Street Scandal Written-By – J. R. Robertson* 3:26 A5 Goin' To Acapulco 5:25 A6 Katie's Been Gone Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Manuel* 2:49 B1 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 2:39 B2 Don't Ya Tell Henry 3:12 B3 Nothing Was Delivered 4:22 B4 Open The Door, Homer 2:47 B5 Long Distance Operator 3:38 B6 This Wheel's On Fire Written-By – B. Dylan*, R. Danko* 3:55 C1 Lo And Behold! 2:43 C2 Bessie Smith Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Danko* 4:17 C3 Clothes Line Saga 2:56 C4 Apple Suckling Tree 2:47 C5 Please, Mrs. Henry 2:31 C6 Tears Of Rage Written-By – B. Dylan*, R. Manuel* 4:17 D1 Too Much Of Nothing 3:00 D2 Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread 2:14 D3 Ain't No More Cane Arranged By – The Band Written-By – Traditional 3:57 D4 Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) 2:06 D5 Ruben Remus Written-By – J. R. Robertson*, R. Manuel* 3:11 D6 Tiny Montgomery 2:51 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc. Copyright © – CBS Inc. Recorded At – Big Pink, West Saugerties, N.Y. Mixed At – The Village Recorder Mixed At – Shangri-La, Malibu, CA Published By – Big Ben Music Ltd. Published By – KPM Published By – B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. Made By – Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd. Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Vocals – Bob Dylan Compiled By – Robbie Robertson Design [Consultant] – Bob Cato Drums, Mandolin, Electric Bass, Vocals – Levon Helm Electric Bass, Mandolin, Vocals – Rick Danko Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Drums, Vocals – Robbie Robertson Liner Notes – Bob Dylan, Greil Marcus Mastered By – George Horn Mixed By – Ed Anderson (2), Mark Aglietti, Nat Jeffrey, Rob Fraboni Organ, Clavinet [Clavinette], Accordion, Tenor Saxophone, Piano – Garth Hudson Photography By – Reid Miles Piano, Drums, Harmonica, Vocals – Richard Manuel Producer – Bob Dylan, The Band Recorded By – Garth Hudson Written-By – B. Dylan* Half-orange/half-yellow CBS label. Gatefold sleeve Interpak II by Shorewood Packaging 1st & 2nd cat# on sleeve, 3rd cat# on labels
(labels) Made in England ℗ 1975 CBS Inc. A1 to B5, C1 to D2, D4 to D6: Big Ben Music Limited. B6: B. Feldman & Co. Ltd./ KPM D3: Copyright Control
(Sleeve) Recorded in the basement of Big Pink, West Saugerties, N.Y., 1967. Mixed at Village Recorders & Shangri-La Studios.
℗ 1975 CBS Inc. / © 1975 CBS Inc.
he Basement Tapes Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-] The official release of The Basement Tapes -- which were first heard on a 1968 bootleg called The Great White Wonder -- plays with history somewhat, as Robbie Robertson overemphasizes the Band's status in the sessions, making them out to be equally active to Dylan, adding in demos not cut at the sessions and overdubbing their recordings to flesh them out. As many bootlegs (most notably the complete five-disc series) reveal, this isn't entirely true and the Band were nowhere near as active as Dylan, but that ultimately is a bit like nitpicking, since the music here (including the Band's) is astonishingly good. The party line on The Basement Tapes is that it is Americana, as Dylan and the Band pick up the weirdness inherent in old folk, country, and blues tunes, but it transcends mere historical arcana through its lively, humorous, full-bodied performances. Dylan never sounded as loose, nor was he ever as funny as he is here, and this positively revels in its weird, wild character. For all the apparent antecedents -- and the allusions are sly and obvious in equal measure -- this is truly Dylan's show, as he majestically evokes old myths and creates new ones, resulting in a crazy quilt of blues, humor, folk, tall tales, inside jokes, and rock. The Band pretty much pick up where Dylan left off, even singing a couple of his tunes, but they play it a little straight, on both their rockers and ballads. Not a bad thing at all, since this actually winds up providing context for the wild, mercurial brilliance of Dylan's work -- and, taken together, the results (especially in this judiciously compiled form with its expert song selection, even if there's a bit too much Band) rank among the greatest American music ever made.
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