A track, "Nothing To It", has been released from the forthcoming Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes project. The album features lyrics that Dylan wrote while recording the original Basement Tapes in 1967 that have been put to music by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drop...
A track, “Nothing To It“, has been released from the forthcoming Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes project.
The album features lyrics that Dylan wrote while recording the original Basement Tapes in 1967 that have been put to music by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James, T Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford.
The first song from these sessions, “Nothing To It” is accompanied by an animated video that overlays abstract cartoons and Dylan’s original hand-written lyrics.
Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes is released on November 11 across a variety of different formats.
A digital edition is available for preorder on iTunes and Amazon now.
The album will be released as deluxe and standard CD editions, as well as a 180-gram virgin-vinyl two-disc set.
A limited-edition box set of the album includes the deluxe CD, the 180-gram virgin-vinyl two-disc set, six photographic portraits of the artists, five prints of the newly discovered Bob Dylan handwritten lyrics, an album cover lithograph and the deluxe digital album.
You can read an interview with T Bone Burnett here.
The tracklisting for the deluxe edition of Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes is:
Down On The Bottom
Married To My Hack
Kansas City
Spanish Mary
Liberty Street
Nothing To It
Golden Tom – Silver Judas
When I Get My Hands On You
Duncan and Jimmy
Florida Key
Hidee Hidee Ho #11
Lost On The River #12
Stranger
Card Shark
Quick Like A Flash
Hidee Hidee Ho #16
Diamond Ring
The Whistle Is Blowing
Six Months in Kansas City (Liberty Street)
Lost On The River #20