Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes flac album

The Basement Tapes is an album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and The Band. It was released on June 26, 1975, by Columbia Records and is Dylan's 16th studio album. The songs featuring Dylan's vocals were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, at Big Pink and other houses in and around Woodstock, New York, where Dylan and The Band lived. Although most of the Dylan songs had appeared on bootleg records, The Basement Tapes marked the songs' first official release.

By the time it came out in June 1975, Bob Dylan and the Band's The Basement Tapes was the most famous album never released. It was also one of the most frequently bootlegged. It was written about, dissected, discussed and heralded as a masterpiece before Dylan's record company finally decided to put out some of the songs that were recorded by the singer and his onetime backing band eight years earlier. Following a July 1966 motorcycle accident, Dylan retreated to his home in Woodstock, .

The Basement Tapes Bob Dylan & The Band Released 07/01/1975. Some years back, The Band cut a song called "The Rumor. It's a tune that could well describe the music now collected here. In 1965 and 1966 Bob Dylan and The Hawks played their way across the country and then around the world; those rough tours pushed Bob Dylan's music, and The Band's, to a certain limit, and they had made stand-up, -no quarter-asked music if there ever was such a thing. In the summer of 1967 Dylan and The Band were after something else

One of the most acclaimed albums in either Dylan’s or the Band’s catalog, The Basement Tapes supposedly documents the collaboration between the two in 1967 following the former’s motorcycle accident. These sessions (which had become legendary as the result of their partial release on rock’s first bootleg) were originally conceived as the source of songs for other artists, with these versions never meant to see the light of day. Upon their release, they were immediately heralded as classics in their own right. The Basement Tapes Q&A.

The rough recordings Dylan made in Woodstock in the spring and summer of 1967 had a profound effect, widely held to represent the third time in as many years that he altered the course of music. Naked, you can hear George Harrison blithely informing his Beatles that Dylan and The Band thought the best song on The White Album was Ringo’s countrified Don’t Pass Me By, although the audible skepticism of Paul McCartney’s response is something to behold.