The Basement Tapes Complete (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11)

2014

The Basement Tapes Complete (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11) is a Rock album by Bob Dylan, originally released in 2014. On Gatefold: 12 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.

Sound DNA

Rock
Folk Rock

raw
playful
pastoral

About

When Bob Dylan finished a worldwide tour in England in 1966, he was too exhausted to entertain The Beatles, passing out in the bathtub rather than talking tunes with his new famous friends. A month later, that enervation would come to a head when Dylan crashed his Triumph motorcycle on the twisting roads near Woodstock, an accident that purportedly almost killed him. The break that followed gave Dylan time to reckon with his head, and allowed the members of The Hawks—the band that had backed him during those brutally polarizing shows—to figure out a sound of their own at last. After struggling to find an affordable practice space in New York City, The Hawks decamped to a garish pink house with four bedrooms and a basement in West Saugerties, setting up a makeshift recording setup in that lower lair. They’d been there only briefly when Dylan arrived with Robbie Robertson and his dog, Hamlet. Dylan loved their amateur studio, and began returning almost every day between June and October 1967, feeling so at home with Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson that he began leaving his typewriter and Martin guitar there. They played new songs that he or The Hawks wrote on the spot, and dug into centuries of traditional music from the United States and Europe. These sessions were so unfettered and fun that they eventually lured Hawks drummer Levon Helm—who’d become disenchanted with working for Dylan—back into the fold. For nearly a decade, these recordings were whispered about among Dylan fans, existing only in pirated recordings. But in 1975, Robertson eventually compiled a 24-track set dubbed The Basement Tapes, beating the bootleggers at their own game. The album became a road map for the future of roots-rock—for just how far and how wild American music rooted in country, blues, and jazz could go. The origins of The Hawks’ titanic debut, Music from Big Pink, are here in a fitful take on “Tears of Rage” and a magnetic version of “Ain’t No More Cane.” (Of course, by the time Big Pink arrived, The Hawks had become The Band.) And Dylan reaches splendid new levels of experimental absurdity here, from the piano clap-along “Apple Suckling Tree” to the pun-rich “Open the Door, Homer.” Some of his most aching work is here, too, like the brooding testimonial “Nothing Was Delivered” and the haunted “Goin’ to Acapulco.” The sound quality of The Basement Tapes is often rough, and its focus is mostly nonexistent. The release of these songs would prompt existential questions about what it meant to make an album—and what right fans had to the material their heroes had made in private. But more importantly, The Basement Tapes threw the doors open to what folk, rock, jazz, and blues could do when they were treated like a single playground, open to everyone with an imagination and a little place to jam.

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Tracklist

1-1Edge Of The Ocean2:21
1-2My Bucket's Got A Hole In It1:35
1-3Roll On Train2:00
1-4Mr. Blue1:52
1-5Belshazzar3:22
1-6I Forgot To Remember To Forget3:19
1-7You Win Again2:43
1-8Still In Town3:04
1-9Waltzing With Sin2:49
1-10Big River (Take 1)0:43
1-11Big River (Take 2)2:23
1-12Folsom Prison Blues2:46
1-13Bells Of Rhymney3:16
1-14Spanish Is The Loving Tongue3:53
1-15Under Control2:50
1-16Ol' Roison The Beau4:55
1-17I'm Guilty Of Loving You1:09
1-18Cool Water3:04
1-19The Auld Triangle5:47
1-20Po' Lazarus1:00
1-21I'm A Fool For You (Take 1)1:06
1-22I'm A Fool For You (Take 2)2:34
2-1Johnny Todd2:05
2-2Tupelo2:22
2-3Kickin' My Dog Around2:43
2-4See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)0:30
2-5See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)0:51
2-6Tiny Montgomery2:57
2-7Big Dog0:24
2-8I'm Your Teenage Prayer3:52
2-9Four Strong Winds3:42
2-10The French Girl (Take 1)2:12
2-11The French Girl (Take 2)3:00
2-12Joshua Gone Barbados2:46
2-13I'm In The Mood1:56
2-14Baby Ain't That Fine2:11
2-15Rock, Salt And Nails4:37
2-16A Fool Such As I2:57
2-17Song For Canada4:31
2-18People Get Ready3:15
2-19I Don't Hurt Anymore2:15
2-20Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw3:04
2-21One Man's Loss3:52
2-22Lock Your Door0:23
2-23Baby, Won't You Be My Baby2:53
2-24Try Me Little Girl1:38
2-25I Can't Make It Alone3:34
2-26Don't You Try Me Now3:12
3-1Young But Daily Growing5:40
3-2Bonnie Ship The Diamond3:21
3-3The Hills Of Mexico3:05
3-4Down On Me0:43
3-5One For The Road4:50
3-6I'm Alright1:46
3-7Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)2:52
3-8Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)2:35
3-9Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (Take 1)1:50
3-10Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (Take 2)2:16
3-11I'm Not There5:13
3-12Please Mrs. Henry2:34
3-13Crash On The Levee (Take 1)2:11
3-14Crash On The Levee (Take 2)2:06
3-15Lo And Behold! (Take 1)2:54
3-16Lo And Behold! (Take 2)2:50
3-17You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 1)2:48
3-18You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 2)2:46
3-19I Shall Be Released (Take 1)4:04
3-20I Shall Be Released (Take 2)3:58
3-21This Wheel's On Fire3:54
3-22Too Much Of Nothing (Take 1)3:03
3-23Too Much Of Nothing (Take 2)2:51
4-1Tears Of Rage (Take 1)4:04
4-2Tears Of Rage (Take 2)2:31
4-3Tears Of Rage (Take 3)4:15
4-4Quinn The Eskimo (Take 1)2:03
4-5Quinn The Eskimo (Take 2)2:16
4-6Open The Door Homer (Take 1)2:53
4-7Open The Door Homer (Take 2)0:58
4-8Open The Door Homer (Take 3)3:14
4-9Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)4:26
4-10Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)3:44
4-11Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)0:33
4-12All American Boy3:59
4-13Sign On The Cross7:21
4-14Odds And Ends (Take 1)1:48
4-15Odds And Ends (Take 2)1:49
4-16Get Your Rocks Off3:46
4-17Clothes Line Saga2:59
4-18Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)2:41
4-19Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)2:50
4-20Don't Ya Tell Henry2:31
4-21Bourbon Street5:05
5-1Blowin' In The Wind6:36
5-2One Too Many Mornings3:23
5-3A Satisfied Mind2:01
5-4It Ain't Me, Babe3:32
5-5Ain't No More Cane (Take 1)2:41
5-6Ain't No More Cane (Take 2)1:58
5-7My Woman She's A-Leavin'2:30
5-8Santa-Fe2:08
5-9Mary Lou, I Love You Too2:30
5-10Dress It Up, Better Have It All2:53
5-11Minstrel Boy1:40
5-12Silent Weekend3:01
5-13What's It Gonna Be When It Comes Up3:04
5-14900 Miles From My Home2:14
5-15Wildwood Flower2:11
5-16One Kind Favor3:33
5-17She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain1:39
5-18It's The Flight Of The Bumblebee2:09
5-19Wild Wolf3:35
5-20Goin' To Acapulco5:37
5-21Gonna Get You Now1:31
5-22If I Were A Carpenter2:23
5-23Confidential1:37
5-24All You Have To Do Is Dream (Take 1)3:56
5-25All You Have To Do Is Dream (Take 2)3:20
Bonus Disc
6-12 Dollars And 99 Cents2:35
6-2Jelly Bean2:58
6-3Any Time3:17
6-4Down By The Station1:29
6-5Hallelujah, I've Just Been Moved3:04
6-6That's The Breaks4:18
6-7Pretty Mary3:12
6-8Will The Circle Be Unbroken2:09
6-9King Of France3:53
6-10She's On My Mind Again4:18
6-11Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad3:21
6-12On A Rainy Afternoon2:53
6-13I Can't Come In With A Broken Heart2:42
6-14Next Time On The Highway2:20
6-15Northern Claim2:05
6-16Love Is Only Mine1:50
6-17Silhouettes1:52
6-18Bring It On Home3:07
6-19Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies2:09
6-20The Spanish Song (Take 1)2:47
6-21The Spanish Song (Take 2)2:16

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7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 12 pressings tracked on Gatefold