BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND BASEMENT TAPES The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and the Band, released on June 26, 1975 by Columbia Records. It is Dylans sixteenth studio album. The songs featuring Dylans vocals were recorded in 1967, eight years before the albums release, at 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 their first official release. During his world tour of 1965–66, Dylan was backed by a five-member rock group, the Hawks, who would subsequently become famous as the Band. After Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, four members of the Hawks gravitated to the vicinity of Dylans home in the Woodstock area to collaborate with him on music and film projects. While Dylan was concealed from the publics gaze during an extended period of convalescence in 1967, they recorded more than 100 tracks together, comprising original compositions, contemporary covers and traditional material. Dylans new style of writing moved away from the urban sensibility and extended narratives that had characterized his most recent albums, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, toward songs that were more intimate and which drew on many styles of traditional American music. While some of the basement songs are humorous, others dwell on nothingness, betrayal and a quest for salvation. In general, they possess a rootsy quality anticipating the Americana genre. For some critics, the songs on The Basement Tapes, which circulated widely in unofficial form, mounted a major stylistic challenge to rock music in the late sixties. When Columbia Records prepared the album for official release in 1975, eight songs recorded solely by the Band—in various locations between 1967 and 1975—were added to sixteen songs taped by Dylan and the Band in 1967. Overdubs were added in 1975 to songs from both categories. The Basement Tapes was critically acclaimed upon release, and reached number seven on the Billboard 200 album chart. Subsequently, the format of the 1975 album has led critics to question the omission of some of Dylans best-known 1967 compositions and the inclusion of material by the Band that was not recorded in Woodstock YOU AINT GOIN NOWHERE Clouds so swift Rain wont lift Gate wont close Railings froze Get your mind off wintertime You aint goin nowhere Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrows the day My brides gonna come Oh, oh, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! I dont care How many letters they sent Morning came and morning went Pick up your money And pack up your tent You aint goin nowhere Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrows the day My brides gonna come Oh, oh, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! Buy me a flute And a gun that shoots Tailgates and substitutes Strap yourself To the tree with roots You aint goin nowhere Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrows the day My brides gonna come Oh, oh, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair! Djenghis Khan He could not keep All his kings Supplied with sleep Well climb that hill no matter how steep When we get up to it Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrows the day My brides gonna come Oh, oh, are we gonna fly Down in the easy chair!
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