News - 27/08/2014

Bob Dylan plans to release the complete 'Basement Tapes' box set

Bob Dylan plans to release the complete 'Basement Tapes' box set

Great news for Bob Dylan fans: on November 4th, it will finally be released a complete box set featuring all the legendary "Basement Tapes" sessions. 138 tracks on six cds, including 30 songs that even fanatical Dylan fans never knew existed.

These never heard before tracks include an epic rock number called "Wild Wolf", an early draft of "I Shall Be Released" with different lyrics; a cover of Hank Williams' 1949 classic "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It" and country-fied versions of "Blowin' in the Wind," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "One Too Many Mornings".
"The stuff that people haven't heard justifies, in every way, shape and form, all the hype, hubris and myth that surrounds these tapes" commented folk musician and writer Sid Griffin, who wrote the liner notes for this monster box set.
There will also be a a two-disc version and three-LP set of the release, by the way.

The "Basement Tapes" sessions began the late spring of 1967: Dylan had retreated to Woodstock with his family and The Band (at the time known as the Crackers) had followed him there after he injured himself in a motorcycle accident.
The 20 reel-to-reel tapes that hold the entire sessions sat in the Woodstock home of the Band's Garth Hudson until about ten years ago, when he sold them to Canadian collector Jan Haust. Dylan's office cut a deal with Haust that allowed the tapes to finally come out officially.
Before most of this material circulated in the form of bootlegs and muddy sounding unofficial recordings.



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