1967
Woodstock: basement sessions with the Hawks
Through 1967 Dylan recorded dozens of informal songs with members of the Hawks, soon to be the Band, in the basement of a house called Big Pink near Woodstock.
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The sessions were relaxed and unplanned. Garth Hudson ran a tape recorder while the group worked through old folk ballads, country songs and blues alongside a stream of new Dylan songs, some funny, some strange, some deeply serious, among them "I Shall Be Released" and "This Wheel's on Fire". Demo tapes went to his music publisher, and other artists such as Manfred Mann and the Byrds had hits with the songs. A bootleg called Great White Wonder appeared in 1969, one of the first rock bootlegs. Columbia issued a selection as The Basement Tapes in 1975 and a near-complete set in 2014. The Band's own debut, Music from Big Pink, came out in 1968, and the sessions helped shape the rootsier sound of the late 1960s.
His songs from 1967
- All Along the WatchtowerJohn Wesley Harding
- I’ll Be Your Baby TonightJohn Wesley Harding
- Dear LandlordJohn Wesley Harding
- I Pity the Poor ImmigrantJohn Wesley Harding
- John Wesley HardingJohn Wesley Harding
- I Dreamed I Saw St. AugustineJohn Wesley Harding
- The Wicked MessengerJohn Wesley Harding
- The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas PriestJohn Wesley Harding