The Basement Tapes
Beskrivning:Bob Dylan och The Band gjorde dessa inspelningar i källaren till The Big Pink, ett stort skärt trähus i delstaten New York. I flera år cirkulerade inspelningarna som boot-legs, men detta är den officiella utgåvan. Greil Marcus har skrivit texten i utvikningskonvolutet.
"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." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)
24 spår; speltid 76:41.
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Skivbolag: CBS 88147 (1967)
Format: 2-LP
Skick: Vinyl Nära nyskick
Holländsk pressning. Ägaretikett i hörn framsidan.
Spår:
- Odds and ends
- Orange juice blues
- Million dollar bash
- Yazoo Street scandal
- Goin´ to Acapulco
- Katie´s been gone
- Lo and behold!
- Bessie Smith
- 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
- Crash on the levee
- Ruben Remus
- Tiny Montgomery
- You ain´t going nowhere
- Don´t ya tell Henry
- Nothing was delivered
- Open the door, Homer
- Long distance operator
- This wheel´s on fire