Side A:
1. Odds and Ends
2. Million Dollar Bash
3. Lo and Behold!
4. Clothes Line Saga
5. Apple Suckling Tree
6. Please, Mrs. Henry
7. Tears of Rage
Side B:
8. Too Much of Nothing
9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
10. Quinn the Eskimo
11. Tiny Montgomery
12. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
13. Open the Door, Homer
14. This Wheel's on Fire
This is based on the 1975 album Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and The Band. When the tapes were recorded in 1967, they became legendary. Some songs from the tape became part of the first rock bootleg Great White Wonder in 1969. So there had been a demand for an official release of the tapes for years, but when it was released in 1975, the fans were unhappy. Many criticized the songs which only featured The Band as unnecessary, but the tracks were recorded around the same time and were officially unreleased up to that point. Many others criticized the use of overdubbing with new parts recorded for the album by The Band, as well as the fact that the Dylan material represented wasn't among his best.
Excluded tracks included I Shall Be Released and Quinn the Eskimo. In total, there were 16 songs with Bob Dylan and 8 songs with The Band. Because of this, an official release of the tapes came out in 2014 as part of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 11. There were 139 tracks across 6 CDs. But I feel like if you took out the tracks by The Band and two more of the lengthy tracks from the original album, it's pretty easy to turn a 2 LP set into a 1 LP album. The only real change I made is that I replaced Crash on the Levee with Quinn the Eskimo.
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