The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes is a series of recordings by North American folk-rockers Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded in the mid-1960s. The recordings were first heard on a bootleg called The Great White Wonder in 1968 (see 1968 in music) and were finally released (as The Basement Tapes, as they had become colloquially known) on June 26, 1975 (see 1975 in music).

The Basement Tapes peakedt at #7 in 1975 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart.

Track listing

1. "Odds and Ends" (Dylan) - 1:46
2. "Orange Juice Blues" (Blues for Breakfast) (Manuel) - 3:37
3. "Million Dollar Bash" (Dylan) - 2:31
4. "Yazoo Street Scandal" (Robertson) - 3:27
5. "Goin' to Acapulco" (Dylan) - 5:26
6. "Katie's Been Gone" (Manuel/Robertson) - 2:43
7. "Lo and Behold" (Dylan) - 2:45
8. "Bessie Smith" (Danko/Robertson) - 4:17
9. "Clothesline Saga" (Dylan) - 2:56
10. "Apple Suckling Tree" (Dylan) - 2:48
11. "Please, Mrs. Henry" (Dylan) - 2:31
12. "Tears of Rage" (Dylan/Manuel) - 4:11
13. "Too Much of Nothing" (Dylan) - 3:01
14. "Yea Heavy and a Bottle of Bread" (Dylan) - 2:13
15. "Ain't No More Cane" (Traditional) - 3:56
16. "Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)" (Dylan) - 2:03
17. "Ruben Remus" (Manuel/Robertson) - 3:13
18. "Tiny Montgomery" (Dylan) - 2:45
19. "You Ain't Going Nowhere" (Dylan) - 2:42
20. "Don't Ya Tell Henry" (Dylan) - 3:12
21. "Nothing Was Delivered" (Dylan) - 4:22
22. "Open the Door, Homer" (Dylan) - 2:49
23. "Long Distance Operator" (Dylan) - 3:38
24. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Danko/Dylan) - 3:49

Personnel

• The Band - Producer, Performer
• Bob Dylan - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Performer
• Robbie Robertson - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Drums, Guitar (Electric), Vocals
• Rick Danko - Bass, Mandolin, Violin, Bass (Electric), Vocals
• Levon Helm - Mandolin, Bass (Electric), Drums, Vocals
• Garth Hudson - Organ, Piano, Accordion, Keyboards, Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Clavinet[?], Engineer
• Richard Manuel - Harmonica, Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
• Maretha Stewart - Vocals