The Basement Tapes

:This article is about the album. For the recording session see Basement Tape.

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The Basement Tapes are a series of recordings by North American folk-rockers Bob Dylan and The Band, recorded in mid-1967. The recordings were first heard on a bootleg called The Great White Wonder in 1968 (see 1968 in music) and were finally released (as The Basement Tapes, as they had become colloquially known) on June 26, 1975 (see 1975 in music).

Related Topics:
Folk-rock - Bob Dylan - The Band - 1967 - Bootleg - 1968 - 1968 in music - June 26 - 1975 - 1975 in music

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The Basement Tapes peaked at #7 in 1975 on Billboard's (North America) Pop Albums chart and reached #8 in the UK. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.

Related Topics:
Billboard - The Village Voice - Pazz & Jop

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