AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Some friendly charlatans rar file1/1/2023 What we know, or knew, as The Basement Tapes was the lightning rod in many ways that The Band started to become known by - while the nation went paisley, day-glo and incandescent - they went firmly in the opposite direction, toward soil, loam, rain and the king harvest. Greil Marcus describes The Basement Tapes in elegaic terms, using the “songs” as a very loose map of the Old, Weird America (originally published as The Invisible Republic). Music From Big Pink as a singular musical statement and then the mythology that grew around the Big Pink period clearly fascinates many. The brief period that The Band and Bob Dylan spent in 1967 (in actuality only from June to October of that year) recording music in the basement of a pink house in West Saugerties, NY, was as remarkably brief as it was fecund, both for the amount of recordings authorized (1975’s The Basement Tapes), bootleg and otherwise, it produced as well as the number of musical treatise focused largely around this short period.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |