DealsDeal alert / Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete – Bootleg Series Vol 11
Amazing price right now on Amazon Italy for the 2014 Bob Dylan Bootleg Series box set – the six-CD Basement Tapes Complete.
At the time of writing (11am GMT 14/2/17) this box set (which boasts stunning packaging with two superb hardcover books set inside a soft-feel outer slipcase) is just £50 (€59) on the Italian site.
The Cutting Edge 1965-66 six-CD box is a similar price!
The Basement Tapes Complete Track listing
CD 1
- 1. Edge of the Ocean
- 2. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It (written by Clarence Williams)
- 3. Roll on Train
- 4. Mr. Blue (written by Dewayne Blackwell)
- 5. Belshazzar (written by Johnny Cash)
- 6. I Forgot to Remember to Forget (written by Charlie A Feathers and Stanley A Kesler)
- 7. You Win Again (written by Hank Williams)
- 8. Still in Town (written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard)
- 9. Waltzing with Sin (written by Sonny Burns and Red Hayes)
- 10. Big River (Take 1) (written by Johnny Cash)
- 11. Big River (Take 2) (written by Johnny Cash)
- 12. Folsom Prison Blues (written by Johnny Cash)
- 13. Bells of Rhymney (written by Idris Davies and Peter Seeger)
- 14. Spanish is the Loving Tongue
- 15. Under Control
- 16. Ol’ Roison the Beau (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 17. I’m Guilty of Loving You
- 18. Cool Water (written by Bob Nolan)
- 19. The Auld Triangle (written by Brendan Francis Behan)
- 20. Po’ Lazarus (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 21. I’m a Fool for You (Take 1)
- 22. I’m a Fool for You (Take 2)
CD 2
- 1. Johnny Todd (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 2. Tupelo (written by John Lee Hooker)
- 3. Kickin’ My Dog Around (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 4. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 1)
- 5. See You Later Allen Ginsberg (Take 2)
- 6. Tiny Montgomery
- 7. Big Dog
- 8. I’m Your Teenage Prayer
- 9. Four Strong Winds (written by Ian Tyson)
- 10. The French Girl (Take 1) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
- 11. The French Girl (Take 2) (written by Ian Tyson and Sylvia Tyson)
- 12. Joshua Gone Barbados (written by Eric Von Schmidt)
- 13. I’m in the Mood (written by Bernard Besman and John Lee Hooker)
- 14. Baby Ain’t That Fine (written by Dallas Frazier)
- 15. Rock, Salt and Nails (written by Bruce Phillips)
- 16. A Fool Such As I (written by William Marvin Trader)
- 17. Song for Canada (written by Pete Gzowski and Ian Tyson)
- 18. People Get Ready (written by Curtis L Mayfield)
- 19. I Don’t Hurt Anymore (written By Donald I Robertson and Walter E Rollins)
- 20. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (written by Benjamin Lee Blankenship)
- 21. One Man’s Loss
- 22. Lock Your Door
- 23. Baby, Won’t You be My Baby
- 24. Try Me Little Girl
- 25. I Can’t Make it Alone
- 26. Don’t You Try Me Now
CD 3
- 1. Young but Daily Growing (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 3. The Hills of Mexico (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 4. Down on Me (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 5. One for the Road
- 6. I’m Alright
- 7. Million Dollar Bash (Take 1)
- 8. Million Dollar Bash (Take 2)
- 9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 1)
- 10. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread (Take 2)
- 11. I’m Not There
- 12. Please Mrs. Henry
- 13. Crash on the Levee (Take 1)
- 14. Crash on the Levee (Take 2)
- 15. Lo and Behold! (Take 1)
- 16. Lo and Behold! (Take 2)
- 17. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1)
- 18. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 2)
- 19. I Shall be Released (Take 1)
- 20. I Shall be Released (Take 2)
- 21. This Wheel’s on Fire (written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko)
- 22. Too Much of Nothing (Take 1)
- 23. Too Much of Nothing (Take 2)
CD 4
- 1. Tears of Rage (Take 1) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- 2. Tears of Rage (Take 2) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- 3. Tears of Rage (Take 3) (written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel)
- 4. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 1)
- 5. Quinn the Eskimo (Take 2)
- 6. Open the Door Homer (Take 1)
- 7. Open the Door Homer (Take 2)
- 8. Open the Door Homer (Take 3)
- 9. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 1)
- 10. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 2)
- 11. Nothing Was Delivered (Take 3)
- 12. All American Boy (written by Bobby Bare)
- 13. Sign on the Cross
- 14. Odds and Ends (Take 1)
- 15. Odds and Ends (Take 2)
- 16. Get Your Rocks Off
- 17. Clothes Line Saga
- 18. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 1)
- 19. Apple Suckling Tree (Take 2)
- 20. Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- 21. Bourbon Street
CD 5
- 1. Blowin’ in the Wind
- 2. One Too Many Mornings
- 3. A Satisfied Mind (written by Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes)
- 4. It Ain’t Me, Babe
- 5. Ain’t No More Cane (Take 1) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 6. Ain’t No More Cane (Take 2) (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 7. My Woman She’s A-Leavin’
- 8. Santa-Fe
- 9. Mary Lou, I Love You Too
- 10. Dress it up, Better Have it All
- 11. Minstrel Boy
- 12. Silent Weekend
- 13. What’s it Gonna be When it Comes Up
- 14. 900 Miles from My Home (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 15. Wildwood Flower (written by A.P. Carter)
- 16. One Kind Favor (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 17. She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 18. It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee
- 19. Wild Wolf
- 20. Goin’ to Acapulco
- 21. Gonna Get You Now
- 22. If I Were A Carpenter (written by James Timothy Hardin)
- 23. Confidential (written by Dorina Morgan)
- 24. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 1)
- 25. All You Have to do is Dream (Take 2)
CD 6
- 1. 2 Dollars and 99 Cents
- 2. Jelly Bean
- 3. Any Time
- 4. Down by the Station
- 5. Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 6. That’s the Breaks
- 7. Pretty Mary
- 8. Will the Circle be Unbroken (written by A.P. Carter)
- 9. King of France
- 10. She’s on My Mind Again
- 11. Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 12. On a Rainy Afternoon
- 13. I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart
- 14. Next Time on the Highway
- 15. Northern Claim
- 16. Love is Only Mine
- 17. Silhouettes (written by Bob Crewe and Frank C Slay Jr.)
- 18. Bring it on Home
- 19. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan)
- 20. The Spanish Song (Take 1)
- 21. The Spanish Song (Take 2)
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Well, I am impressed with that purchase….ordered on 14th from amazon Italy. Received today 16th, new sealed unit ( interestingly despatched from Scotland)
For around £52.
If you like the normal ‘ Basement Tapes’ set, you’ll love this.
Roll on ‘Desire’ and ‘ Blood On The Tracks’ era sets
Hi Paul.
Do you know if any other Bootleg Series had the same deluxe packaging?
Thanks!
Rui
Hi Rui,
Vol. 10 is still available as a 4-CD-SDE for about EUR 70 (Another Self-Portrait), for Vol. 8 there is a 3-CD SDE incl. 2 books as well (Tell-Tale Signs) but that is deleted and so you have to pay about EUR 250 on the usual sites . And not to forget the 18-CD plus 9-45rpm vinyl single and several other stuff SuperUltraDeluxe-version of Vol. 12 (The Cutting Edge), limited to 5000 numbered boxes worldwide, which currently is a regular guest on Discogs’ monthly charts of the most-expensive item of the month (last month one was sold for about USD 1100).
Thank you very much Klaus.
I just found a copy of Another Self-Portrait in my country (Portugal) for around 65Eur. But the other 2 are off limits :-)
All the Best,
Rui
As someone who likes to try before buying, I have the 18 disc set in flac. It’s good, but too many versions of the same song is a brave and time consuming listen.
I recommend the 6 disc edition as it is more concise, has most of the best versions of the tracks and is a superb set with books etc.
Got the 6-disc version and am happy with it, but still: 18-disc version is on my list what to order after i won the lottery ;-))
Theres a lot of ggod deals on the Italian site for box sets at the moment – Dylan’s Live 66 box for E82, Star Wars 10CD + DVD for E31 stand out.
https://www.amazon.it/1966-Live-Recordings-36-CD/dp/B01LXC8X05/ref=sr_1_18?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1487174275&sr=1-18
https://www.amazon.it/Star-Wars-Ultimate-Soundtrack-Collection/dp/B015NOT9FY/ref=sr_1_63?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1487174327&sr=1-63
Yes the wait was worth it ,got both sets.
Thx Paul
These Basement Tapes are listed as Complete but this one is getting rave reviews also https://www.amazon.com/Basement-Tapes-Bob-Dylan-Band/dp/B001NERPHS/ref=sr_1_1_twi_aud_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1487102419&sr=1-1&keywords=Bob+dylan+The+Basement+Tapes+mfsl I have not compared these track by track but apparently there are some on the two-disc set that are not included in the Complete offering.
Spotify has samplers of both releases. I don’t know if any readers are familiar with the two disc set. Apparently fans need both to be truly Complete.
Tom.That is the original Basement Tapes album released in 1975 to discourage bootleggers. The tracks on that album are enhanced with overdubs to make them more appealing. It’s why the BoOtley 11 set is called the Basement Tapes Raw. The one you link to also includes sessions by The Band after Dylan left town. The Bootleg Series is a Dylan series so doesn’t feature any tracks from those sessions.
This is a great set and outside of the second bootleg series- the Manchester concert, is my favorite of the series. I picked up the cd set and the vinyl set. Now waiting and waiting for the day the Blood On The Tracks sessions are released.
Glad to hear that Mad Earwig, as I have just bought them both.
I too hope that hings will quieten down for a while.
Thanks Paul,
now ordered as I have been waiting for an acceptable price on this for a while and amazon UK are listing this between £80-£300.
Was lucky to have a flac version so know what I’m getting and it is so much better than the normal double cd version with Dylan having a good time.
This and the ‘cutting edge’ set are excellent.
Bit the bullet and got this and the 6 CD Cutting Edge for the same price.
Finding your site really has been good news from a music point of view but disastrous financially.
Paul, while I’m glad that you’ve recently alerted me to some great savings on boxes (Beatles, Clash and now this) that I’d previously refrained from purchasing, I hope you’ll forgive me for hoping that things will calm down for the next few months at least…
By the way: i just saw that “The Cutting Edge”-6 CD-box currently sells for the same price as well on Amazon.it.
Having already got the triple vinyl set cos I have the original Basement Tapes album on vinyl, I then wanted to hear all the extra material so bought this six CD set from Amazon UK just over a year ago for £60 which I felt was a pretty good deal. A truly fascinating collection.
All good things come to those who wait…well, in this case i haven’t had enough patience and ordered it in November last year thinking this will only go up pricewise for 88 EUR from Amazon.de.
As far as they’re concerned i was right (it’s above 100 EUR currently) but obviously i haven’t thought about our italian friends :-(
At least buying from the German site gave me the download for free…
Thanks to CJ for the book suggestion anyways.
Similar price for 6 CD Cutting Edge too.
From a musical content PoV this is the best of the deluxe Bootleg sets. Also buy a copy of Invisible Republic by Greil Marcus to accompany your listening., His writing style is an aquired taste, but his background research to these recordings and the origins of the older folk songs is excellent.