CD 1 01. Edge of the Ocean (2:21) 02. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (1:35) 03. Roll on Train (2:00) 04. Mr. Blue (1:52) 05. Belshazzar (3:22) 06. I Forgot to Remember to Forget (3:19) 07. You Win Again (2:43) 08. Still in Town (3:05) 09. Waltzing with Sin (2:49) 10. Big River (Take 1) (0:43) 11. Big River (Take 2) (2:23) 12. Folsom Prison Blues (2:46) 13. Bells of Rhymney (3:16) 14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue (3:53) 15. Under Control (2:50) 16. Ol' Roison the Beau (4:55) 17. I'm Guilty of Loving You (1:09) 18. Cool Water (3:04) 19. The Auld Triangle (5:47) 20. Po' Lazarus (1:00) 21. I'm a Fool for You (Take 1) (1:06) 22. I'm a Fool for You (Take 2) (2:34)
CD 2 01. Johnny Todd (2:05) 02. Tupelo (2:22) 03. Kickin' My Dog Around (2:43) 04. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1) (0:30) 05. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2) (0:51) 06. Tiny Montgomery (2:57) 07. Big Dog (0:24) 08. I'm Your Teenage Prayer (3:52) 09. Four Strong Winds (3:42) 10. The French Girl (Take 1) (2:12) 11. The French Girl (Take 2) (3:00) 12. Joshua Gone Barbados (2:46) 13. I'm in the Mood (1:58) 14. Baby Ain't That Fine (2:11) 15. Rock, Salt and Nails (4:37) 16. A Fool Such As I (2:57) 17. Song for Canada (4:31) 18. People Get Ready (3:15) 19. I Don't Hurt Anymore (2:15) 20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (3:04) 21. One Man's Loss (3:52) 22. Lock Your Door (0:23) 23. Baby, Won't You be My Baby (2:53) 24. Try Me Little Girl (1:38) 25. I Can't Make it Alone (3:34) 26. Don't You Try Me Now (3:12)
CD 3 01. Young but Daily Growing (5:40) 02. Bonnie Ship the Diamond (3:21) 03. The Hills of Mexico (3:05) 04. Down on Me (0:43) 05. One for the Road (4:50) 06. I'm Alright (1:46) 07. Million Dollar Bash (Take 1) (2:52) 08. Million Dollar Bash (Take 2) (2:35) 09. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1) (1:50) 10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2) (2:16) 11. I'm Not There (5:13) 12. Please Mrs. Henry (2:34) 13. Crash on the Levee (Take 1) (2:11) 14. Crash on the Levee (Take 2) (2:06) 15. Lo and Behold! (Take 1) (2:54) 16. Lo and Behold! (Take 2) (2:50) 17. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 1) (2:48) 18. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Take 2) (2:46) 19. I Shall be Released (Take 1) (4:04) 20. I Shall be Released (Take 2) (3:58) 21. This Wheel's on Fire (3:54) 22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1) (3:03) 23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2) (2:50)
CD 4 01. Tears of Rage (Take 1) (4:04) 02. Tears of Rage (Take 2) (2:31) 03. Tears of Rage (Take 3) (4:15) 04. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1) (2:03) 05. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2) (2:16) 06. Open the Door Homer (Take 1) (2:53) 07. Open the Door Homer (Take 2) (0:58) 08. Open the Door Homer (Take 3) (3:14) 09. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1) (4:26) 10. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2) (3:43) 11. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3) (0:33) 12. All American Boy (3:59) 13. Sign on the Cross (7:21) 14. Odds and Ends (Alternate Version) (Take 1) (1:48) 15. Odds and Ends (Take 2) (1:48) 16. Get Your Rocks Off (3:46) 17. Clothes Line Saga (2:59) 18. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1) (2:40) 19. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2) (2:50) 20. Don't Ya Tell Henry (2:31) 21. Bourbon Street (5:05)
CD 5 01. Blowin' in the Wind (6:36) 02. One Too Many Mornings (3:23) 03. A Satisfied Mind (2:01) 04. It Ain't Me, Babe (3:32) 05. Ain't No More Cane (Take 1) (2:41) 06. Ain't No More Cane (Alternate Version) (Take 2) (1:58) 07. My Woman She's A-Leavin' (2:30) 08. Santa-Fe (2:08) 09. Mary Lou, I Love You Too (2:30) 10. Dress It up, Better Have it All (2:53) 11. Minstrel Boy (1:40) 12. Silent Weekend (3:01) 13. What's it Gonna be When it Comes Up (3:04) 14. 900 Miles from My Home (2:14) 15. Wildwood Flower (2:11) 16. One Kind Favor (3:33) 17. She'll be Coming Round the Mountain (1:39) 18. It's the Flight of the Bumblebee (2:09) 19. Wild Wolf (3:35) 20. Goin' to Acapulco (5:37) 21. Gonna Get You Now (1:31) 22. If I Were a Carpenter (2:23) 23. Confidential (1:36) 24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1) (3:56) 25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2) (3:20)
CD 6 01. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents (2:35) 02. Jelly Bean (2:58) 03. Any Time (3:17) 04. Down by the Station (1:29) 05. Hallelujah, I've Just Been Moved (3:04) 06. That's the Breaks (4:18) 07. Pretty Mary (3:12) 08. Will the Circle be Unbroken (2:09) 09. King of France (3:53) 10. She's on My Mind Again (4:18) 11. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (3:21) 12. On a Rainy Afternoon (2:53) 13. I Can't Come in with a Broken Heart (2:42) 14. Next Time on the Highway (2:20) 15. Northern Claim (2:05) 16. Love is Only Mine (1:50) 17. Silhouettes (1:52) 18. Bring it on Home (3:07) 19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (2:09) 20. The Spanish Song (Take 1) (2:47) 21. The Spanish Song (Take 2) (2:16) 22. 900 Miles from My Home / Confidential (2:26)
Preserving newly written Bob Dylan songs for copyright is the reason why the Band's Garth Hudson rolled tape at Big Pink but The Basement Tapes were something much more than songwriting demos. Greil Marcus dubbed it a celebration of the "Old, Weird America" in his 1997 book Invisible Republic, connecting these songs to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, adding an extra layer of myth to tapes that were shrouded in mystery from the moment bootlegs started to circulate. The Basement Tapes Complete strengthens portions of that legend while simultaneously puncturing it. Certainly, the six-disc box -- its first five discs assembled according to Hudson's numbering system, with the sixth disc collecting sessions discovered later -- feels substantially different from the LP released in 1975, where the overall picture was distorted by Robbie Robertson adding sometimes significant overdubs and including Band recordings that weren't cut during those seven months in 1967. This is not a minor thing. These sly revisions gave the 1975 album a slight veneer that's been stripped away by this unfussy, startlingly clear remastering, but the big difference is that the chronological sequence on The Basement Tapes Complete gives the set a narrative. The first two discs are the band warming up, playing a bunch of old songs that are often of more recent vintage than the Old, Weird America reputation suggests -- there's a clutch of Johnny Cash songs, a couple from Ian Tyson, a song apiece from Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, and Dallas Frazier, a cross-section that underscores how this was the birth of what would be called Americana -- and then on the second two discs, Dylan starts tying these disparate strands together on his originals. Many of these songs, usually the wildest and wooliest, showed up in 1975, so the news here are the sometimes quite different alternate takes and the major tunes that have been bootlegged widely over the years: the ghostly "I'm Not There," the winding modern spiritual "Sign on the Cross," the rambling, vulgar blues "Get Your Rocks Off," and the even wilder "Bourbon Street." These songs are necessary additions to the canon, but what gives The Basement Tapes their real resonance is the stuff that happens in the margins. It's the half-remembered covers, it's sterling throwaways like "Silent Weekend," it's Dylan turning his early songs upside down, it's hearing Bob and the Band stumble around as they're trying to find a groove. This is the wondrous thing about The Basement Tapes: this is music made with no expectation that anybody outside of a small circle would ever hear it. Of course, the opposite happened. The Basement Tapes leaked out and became an enduring part not only of the legacy of both Dylan and the Band, but also of American music as a whole, as it stood at the crossroads of so many different strands of American culture. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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