Two weeks ago, Bob Dylan announced he is releasing a six-disc compilation of recordings he made in 1967, famously known as The Basement Tapes. The set will retail for roughly $150.
The music that Bob Dylan and members of The Band so famously recorded in a nondescript house in upstate New York in 1967 has intrigued fans for decades.
During the final week of 1971, The Band played four legendary concerts at New York City’s Academy Of Music, ushering in the New Year with electrifying performances, including new horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint and a surprise guest appearance by Bob Dylan for a New Year’s Eve encore.
Columbia Records will release Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) on Aug. 27. The label says the set will bring a “fresh perspective to one of the artist’s most controversial periods and revealing it to be one of his most wonderfully creative and prolific.”
A previously unreleased Bob Dylan demo recording will be released next month on Record Store Day, and the song is set to appear on a future collection of unreleased Dylan recordings.
Legendary writer and singer Woody Guthrie’s archives are returning home. A few months after the 100th anniversary of the troubadour’s birth, The Woody Guthrie Center is set to open in Tulsa, Okla., the folk singer’s home state.
During the roughly 90 minute concert, the poet laureate of American music showed once again that he has a unique knack for re-inventing even his most famous compositions.