Biography
T-Bone Burnett gathered musicians under the name The New Basement Tapes and gave them the task of composing music for and recording Bob Dylan lyrics written in 1967 that had been set aside and later unearthed. After the manuscripts surfaced in fall 2013, Dylan’s publisher enlisted Burnett to convert the handwritten pages into finished songs, leading him to recruit a circle of sympathetic collaborators. Those chosen included his former Coward Brothers partner Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who all wrote and performed the material while drummer Jay Bellerose anchored the sessions. Recording took place in the early months of 2014 and produced the album Lost on the River, issued in November 2014 together with the Showtime documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, which recounted the project’s story.
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