Bob Dylan's "The Basement Tapes" unearthed, out this fall
The "Basement Tapes" are getting unearthed.
Nearly 40 years after Bob Dylan released his critically-acclaimed studio album with members of The Band comes a massive six-disc set called "The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11."
Due Nov. 4, the new collection features material from the original 1967 sessions at the Big Pink house in Saugerties, New York. Some of the tapes were only discovered recently -- and will soon be available for the first time.
Fans of Dylan and The Band have been clamoring for more from these sessions for some time.
At the height of his fame, Dylan moved into Big Pink after a motorcycle accident in 1966. That's when he teamed with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm, who became The Band. Together, they recorded more than 100 songs over several months -- ranging from covers to Dylan originals, including "I Shall Be Released," "You Ain't Going Nowhere," "The Mighty Quinn" and "This Wheel's On Fire."
They didn't release the songs, but in 1969 an album titled "Great White Wonder" started surfacing in record stores featuring some cuts from the sessions -- essentially a bootleg began making the rounds. Those recordings, though, didn't officially see the light of day until 1975 when Columbia released "The Basement Tapes" album, featuring 16 tracks with eight new songs by The Band without Dylan.
With the upcoming compilation, the songs were kept as "intact as possible."
According to a press release, "Unlike the official 1975 release, these performances are presented as close as possible to the way they were originally recorded and sounded back in the summer of 1967. The tracks on 'The Basement Tapes Complete' run in mostly chronological order based on Garth Hudson's numbering system."
Go here to see the list of tracks.
