Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes

Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes

Band: Bob Dylan & the Band Title: The Basement Tapes Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Odds And Ends 2: Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) 3: Million Dollar Bash 4: Yazoo Street Scandel 5: Goin' To Acapulco 6: Katie's Been Gone 7: Lo And Behold! 8: Bessie Smith 9: Clothes Line Saga 10: Apple Suckling Tree 11: Please, Mrs. Henry 12: Tears Of Rage 13: Too Much Of Nothing 14: Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread 15: Ain't No More Cane 16: Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) 17: Ruben Remus 18: Tiny Montgomery 19: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 20: Don't Ya Tell Henry 21: Nothing Was Delivered 22: Open The Door, Homer 23: Long Distance Operator 24: This Wheel's On Fire

Editoral Review 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. 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. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan & the Band discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan & the Band tabs