The Basement Tapes (1975) is an album recorded by Bob Dylan and the Band
(pictured), the sixteenth studio album for Dylan. After the Band (then
known as the Hawks) backed Dylan during his world tour of 1965–66,
four of them moved to be near Dylan in Woodstock, New York, to
collaborate with him on music and film projects. They recorded more than
100 tracks together in 1967, including original compositions,
contemporary covers and traditional material. The world tour had
controversially mixed folk and rock; Dylan's new style moved away from
rock, and from the urban sensibilities and extended narratives of his
most recent albums, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde. The new
songs covered a range of genres, with lyrics expressing humor,
alienation, betrayal, and a quest for salvation. Many of the songs
circulated widely in unofficial form before the album's release, and for
some critics, they mounted a major stylistic challenge to rock music in
the late sixties. When released in 1975, the album included sixteen
songs taped by Dylan and the Band in 1967 and eight songs recorded
solely by the Band since then. Critically acclaimed upon release, The
Basement Tapes reached number seven on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
356 BC:
The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World, was destroyed in an act of arson by a man named
Herostratus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis>
1831:
In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the
Belgians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium>
1865:
In one of the few recorded instances of a "quick draw" gun duel
in the American Old West, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt
over a poker debt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok_%E2%80%93_Davis_Tutt_shootout>
1925:
American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found
guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in
class.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial>
1995:
The Chinese People's Liberation Army began firing missiles into
the waters north of Taiwan, starting the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mither:
1. (intransitive, Northern England) To make an unnecessary fuss, moan,
bother.
2. (transitive) To pester or irritate someone. Usually directed at
children.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mither>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about
these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how
to live together. If we ignore those teachings — whichever faith …
you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper
mess.
--Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens>