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The New Basement Tapes [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Montalban Theater, Los Angeles, CA; November 13, 2014. Good audience recording; a bit distant, slight echo.
In the light of Bob Dylan’s The Basement Tapes Complete, which was released on November 4, here is a sort-of companion album.
Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times wrote:
How do you bring together five musicians, each with significant catalogs of their own, and put them on the same stage without a hint of raging ego or argument over who gets the spotlight?
Easy. Just throw them some vintage, unreleased Bob Dylan songs to belatedly bring to the world.
That’s what happened Thursday [Nov 13] at the Montalban Theatre in Hollywood for the first and perhaps only concert appearance by the New Basement Tapes band, which includes Elvis Costello, Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Rhiannon Giddens and Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith. The ad-hoc ensemble assembled by producer T Bone Burnett just released “Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes,” an album consisting of newly completed songs set to lyrics Dylan wrote circa 1967 and stashed away until recently.
In an interview, Burnett explained: “What transpired during those two weeks was amazing for all of us. There was a deep well of generosity and support in the studio at all times, which reflected the tremendous trust and generosity shown by Bob in sharing these lyrics with us in the first place.” And, as writer Randy Lewis noted, the camaraderie and mood of generosity was apparent throughout Thursday’s nearly two-hour show, which Jim James said, “We didn’t know about until a day and a half ago.”
Thanks to Bacharach for sharing the show at Dime.
Bacharach noted:
Card Shark is performed unamplified. The alternate versions of Down On The Bottom and Florida Key do not appear on the Lost On The River album.
Lineage:
Zoom H1 (internal mics) > WAV > Sound Studio (track splits, opening and closing fades) > xACT (FLAC conversion)
Recorded by Bacharach (back of theater, left side)
Cover picture by Douglas Gorenstein, posted at rollingstone.com - Thanks!
Back cover picture by Lawrence K Ho, posted at latimes.com - Thanks!
Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Disc 1
Track 101. Introduction by T Bone Burnett 2:00 (3.4MB)
Track 102. Down On The Bottom (Jim James) 5:11 (8.7MB)
Track 103. Spanish Mary (Rhiannon Giddens) 6:24 (10.8MB)
Track 104. Liberty Street (Taylor Goldsmith) 3:17 (5.5MB)
Track 105. Married To My Hack (Elvis Costello) 2:56 (4.9MB)
Track 106. The Whistle Is Blowing (Marcus Mumford) 6:23 (10.7MB)
Track 107. Diamond Ring (Taylor Goldsmith) 4:08 (6.9MB)
Track 108. Nothing To It (Jim James) 4:39 (7.8MB)
Track 109. Lost On The River #12 (Elvis Costello) 5:09 (8.7MB)
Track 110. Florida Key (Taylor Goldsmith) 5:09 (8.7MB)
Track 111. Stranger (Marcus Mumford) 4:39 (7.8MB)
Track 112. Hidee Hidee Ho #16 (Rhiannon Giddens) 4:13 (7.1MB)
Track 113. Hidee Hidee Ho #11 (Jim James) 7:57 (13.3MB)
Track 114. Down On The Bottom (alternate) (Elvis Costello) 4:16 (7.2MB)
67 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Kansas City (Marcus Mumford) 6:49 (11.4MB)
Track 202. Duncan And Jimmy (Rhiannon Giddens) 5:39 (9.5MB)
Track 203. encore break 1:30 (2.5MB)
Track 204. When I Get My Hands On You (Marcus Mumford) 4:56 (8.3MB)
Track 205. Lost On The River #20 (Rhiannon Giddens) 6:04 (10.2MB)
Track 206. Card Shark (Taylor Goldsmith) 3:01 (5.1MB)
Track 207. Florida Key (alternate) (Jim James) 6:56 (11.7MB)
Track 208. Golden Tom - Silver Judas (Elvis Costello) 4:31 (7.6MB)
Track 209. Closing Remarks 1:26 (2.4MB)
41 mins
The band:
Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Rhiannon Giddens - vocals, fiddle, banjo, bass
Taylor Goldsmith - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Jim James - vocals, guitar, bass
Marcus Mumford - vocals, drums, guitar
Jay Bellerose - drums, percussion
Griffin Goldsmith - drums, percussion
with special guests:
Alana Haim - vocals on The Whistle Is Blowing & Kansas City
Danielle Haim - vocals on The Whistle Is Blowing & Kansas City, percussion on Duncan And Jimmy
Este Haim - vocals on The Whistle Is Blowing & Kansas City
Bo Koster - keyboards on Hidee Hidee Ho #11, Kansas City, Duncan And Jimmy, Florida Key (alternate) & Golden Tom - Silver Judas
Johnny Depp - guitar on Kansas City, Duncan And Jimmy & Florida Key (alternate)
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