KIOS will air a one-hour documentary Sunday night, November 2 at 7:00PM which
chronicles the recordings made by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967 that
became known as "The Basement Tapes". The program will feature the
music and stories behind one of the most significant moments in pop
culture in the last 50 years.
In July 1966, Bob Dylan was involved in a near fatal motorcycle accident. After his
recovery, he decided to retreat from the public spotlight and focus on his new life
as a husband and father. Making music was still on his agenda, but not in the studio
or on the road. Instead, he gathered his friends in The Band who had backed him on
his previous tour and began writing new material and recording old folk and blues
songs in the basement where some of the Band members lived. That house became
known as "Big Pink". It was there that Dylan began the next phase of his already
legendary career.
This program will serve as a preview to the release of the Complete Basement
Tapes on Tuesday November 4th. It will be the 11th volume in the ongoing
"Bootleg Series" documenting Dylan's unreleased material.
