Bob Dylan & The Band - 2188 Stoll Road (1968)
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In October 1967, The Band's keyboardist Garth Hudson put together a fourteen-song acetate of new songs he, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko had been recording with Bob Dylan at the basement of Big Pink, a house in 2188 Stoll Road, Saugerties, NY. He had been instructed to do so the previous August by Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, as Dylan had gone more than a year without entering the recording studio and he wanted to shop his artists' compositions around for other artists to record. These lo-fi recordings were made spontaneously and without any intent of ever being released to the public, but in their goofing around, they had recorded much more than an album's worth of fantastic new compositions, something Grossman wanted to take advantage of. With the fourteen songs at hand, Dylan's publishing company Dwarf Music gave them away to artists such as Peter, Paul and Mary, The Byrds, Manfred Mann, and many others, scoring a few hits and giving the public their first taste of post-motorcycle crash Bob. The Band themselves, who had secured a deal with Capitol Records, recorded three of the Basement songs to great success. Eventually, the acetate leaked and became one of the very first bootlegs, and for a while, it was thought that those fourteen songs were the entire content of the sessions. However, by the time 1975 rolled around and the officially released double album came, songs such as "Goin' to Acapulco" made fans wonder just how much material was still sitting in the vault.
Seriously check this out! The quality is great and the remastering revealing, it is way better than my old vinyl versions of The Great White Wonder that I have including the first vinyl bootleg I ever bought from The Netherdlands (Amersfoort I think!)
We haven’t featured anything from the Reconstructor for a while and this is a doozie go check him out (links above)
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