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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes Greil Marcus
Publisher: Picador

Jun 14, 2013 - Coming on the heels of the triumphant Blood On The Tracks, the release of The Basement Tapes of 1975 was a double-whammy of brilliance for Bob Dylan. €�Underneath that tree” sounds like the funkiest place in the world to be. May 14, 2011 - Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus was first published in 1997. Afterwards, pianist Stephen Gosling and soprano Amy Burton perform excerpts from Corigliano's 'Mr. Projects based around the works of Bob Dylan. As the title implies, the book was an in-depth study of Dylan's album The Basement Tapes (1975). For years, but the official release confirmed that the music that Dylan and The Band made in Woodstock in 1967 sounded timeless and ahead of its time all at once, summing up everything good about American music in the 20th century. Tambourine Man', and Fishman and his band perform several songs from their 'Basement Tapes Project'. Oct 8, 2009 - How, then, should we consider The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art—aside from appreciating its stellar title, taken from Greil Marcus's book on Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes—featuring recent works by 18 formally trained artists who live in cities and who seethe . Jun 21, 2010 - Love and Theft also resembles The Basement Tapes in its use of quintessentially American myths, mysteries, and anecdotes delivered by Dylan with a voice that is bawdy, roguishly charred, humble and ironic. The white painting In Praise of Shame, 1915 (2000) is dotted with portraits of dapper men in hat and suit; each reads both as target and window into another, more colorful world.