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50 Years Later: Bob Dylan and The Band's 'The Basement Tapes' Remains Iconic Underground Collaboration - Glide Magazine

Summary by glidemagazine.com
With the benefit of half a century of hindsight, Bob Dylan and The Band’s The Basement Tapes (released 6/26/75) would appear to represent the first of a series of revisionist projects overseen by the late Robbie Robertson. As with his archival work on The Band (a/k/a/ ‘The Brown Album) and Stage Fright, the late guitarist/songwriter of the iconic group modifies the famous recordings in such a way that they lose some of their intrinsic charm and …
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By the time Bob Dylan's and the Band's "The Basement Tapes" was released on June 26, 1975, it was already the most famous album ever released. It was also one of the most pirated. The double LP had been written, dissected, discussed and announced as a masterpiece before Dylan's label finally decided to release some of the songs that were recorded by the singer and his former support band eight years earlier. After a motorcycle accident in July 1…

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glidemagazine.com broke the news in on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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