Nathaniel Rateliff

The Night Sweats man marvels at Dylan and The Band’s The Basement Tapes (Columbia, 1975)

As told to James Allen

I discovered The Basement Tapes at 17 when my friend’s mom showed me her bootleg. We never got a chance to listen to it, so I started digging, looking for it. When I was 20, around 1998, I bought a copy in Colorado. I didn’t have a TV or a phone then, and we’d sit and play rummy and just listen to it, and I spent a lot of time listening by myself. It made you feel like you were sitting with friends, and it taught me that songs can be a lot of different things. They’re not just built on beautiful prose – sometimes they’re matter of fact, funny, or just a story – and that you can capture a moment on your 8-track recorder. I remember one of the…

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