From: rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: GBT
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:56:39
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My previous posting re: Genuine Basment Tapes 3 generated some email
queries concerning vols 1 and 2. Here's a listing of those, plus a
repeat of the listing of GBT 3. I don't have a cd player handy, so in
some case I can't distinguish which version of given song is which.
Some other kind soul can fill in that info :)

Genuine Basement Tapes, vol. 1
All tracks originally released on Blind Boy Grunt & The Hawks Basement
(hereafter "BBG").

1. All You Have To Do Is Dream #1

2. I Can't Make It Alone

3. Down On Me

4. Bonnie Ship the Diamond

5. One Man's Loss

6. Baby Ain't That Fine

7. Rock Salt and Nails

8. A Fool Such As I

9. Stones That You Throw

10. Hills of Mexico

11. It's Alright

12. One Single River

13. Try Me

14. One For the Road

15. I Don't Hurt Anymore

16. People Get Ready

17. Lock Your Door/Won't You Be My Baby

18. Don't You Try Me Now

19. All You Have To Do Is Dream #2

20. Young But Daily Growing

21. People Get Ready [Manuel vocal]

Genuine Basement Tapes, vol. 2

1. Odds and Ends #1 - either this or (3) is an original mix of the
   released version (hereafter "original mix"); the other was
   originally released on BBG.

2. Nothing Was Delivered #1 - original mix

3. Odds and Ends #2 - see (1)

4. Get Your Rocks Off - originally released on BBG

5. Clothesline Saga - original mix

6. Apple Suckling Tree #1 - either this or (7) is an original mix; the
   other was originally released BBG.

7. Apple Suckling Tree #2 - see (6)

8. Going To Acapulco - original mix

9. Gonna Get You Now - originally released on BBG

10. Tears of Rage #1 - from the original acetate and various old
    Basement Tapes boots (Troubled Troubadour etc)

11. Tears of Rage #2 - either this or (12) is an original mix; the
    other was not readily available before.

12. Tears of Rage #3 - see (11)

13. Quinn the Eskimo #1 - as (10)

14. Quinn the Eskimo #2 - original mix

15. Open the Door, Homer #1
16. Open the Door, Homer #2
17. Open the Door, Homer #3

One of these is an original mix, a second is an incomplete version
that was originally released on BBG, a third was not readily available
before [?]

18. Nothing Was Delivered #2 - not readily available before

19. Nothing Was Delivered #3 - not readily available before

20. I'm Not There (1956) - originally released on BBG

21. Don't Ya Tell Henry - not readily available before

22. Too Much of Nothing #2 - originally released on BBG



Genuine Basement Tapes, vol. 3

1. Million Dollar Bash #1 - from the new set of Basement Tapes that
   just came into circulation (hereafter "new tapes")

2. Yea Heavy and a Bottle of Bread #1 - from the new tapes

3. Million Dollar Bash #2 - original mix

4. Yeah Heavy and a Bottle of Bread #2 - original mix

5. Please Mrs Henry - original mix

6. Crash On the Levee #1 - from the new tapes

7. Crash On The Levee #2 - original mix

8. Lo and Behold #1 - from the new tapes

9. Lo and Behold #2 - original mix

10. Ferdinand the Imposter [Danko vocal; incomplete] - originally
    released on BBG

11. Tiny Montgomery - original mix

12. This Wheel's On Fire - original mix

13. You Ain't Going Nowhere - original mix

14. I Shall Be Released - original mix

15. Too Much of Nothing #2 - claims to be a stereo mix of the original
    version (not the released one); doesn't sound like stereo to me

16. Even a Tomato - an instrumental; I don't know where the title
    comes from or if it's been available before

17. Santa Fe - original mix

18. Silent Weekend - from the new tapes

19. Too Much of Nothing #1 - original mix

20. Sign On the Cross - originally released on BBG


NB: the source descriptions given above were determined somewhat
casually on the basis of one listening. I could easily have gotten
some wrong...



Taken together, the first three GBT discs comprise the best collection
so far of (Dylan-vocal) Basement Tapes material. They contain the
original mixes of all released tracks; all unreleased tracks that have
commonly been circulated; and a sprinkling of the some of the more
rare unreleased tracks. Sound quality is at least as good as any
previously available versions, in many cases better. In particular,
the original mixes are almost always more satisfying, at least to me,
than the "cleaned up" (sic) versions that were officially released,
even though some tracks, especially on vol. 3, have a fair amount of
hiss.

There are supposedly two more discs forthcoming in the GBT series.