The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan & The Band: Americana/Bootleg. Originally recorded during a time of recuperation for Dylan after he had broken his neck in a motorcycle crash, this was recorded at the height of his sixties fame but the songs are very different to anything he had recorded before. They focus on strange characters plucked from that “old, weird America”. The Band are his musicians as they had visited the man in Woodstock during the summer of ’67. These songs had been circulating on bootleg for years but when they were finally released nearly ten years later there were still many omissions. This is a great album though if you want a complete picture of that summer you need to get hold of the bootlegs. TWH: Odds and Ends; You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere; This Wheel’s On Fire.

Grade: A