After the 1966 World Tour, Bob Dylan and his Band began to record both new songs and traditionals in the basement of "Big Pink", a house in Woodstock shared by members of the Band (2 years prior to the historical 1968 Woodstock Music Festival). Within a few months, they would record more than thirty new compositions, the demo acetates of which ended up on the "Great White Wonder" in 1969, one of the most important Bootlegs in music history. In 1975 Columbia released the double-album compilation
"The Basement Tapes", which includes recordings from the Big Pink sessions, some overdubbed in 1975, as well as Band songs that were recorded at various locations between 1967 and 1975.