Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is celebrating the release of Bob Dylan‘s The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 with the online arrival of From The Village to The Basement, a short film narrated by Jeff Bridges.
From The Village to The Basement compresses more than 12,000 photographs into an extended time-lapse tracking shot, opening on the sidewalk in front of the Washington Square Hotel in Greenwich Village, moving northward through upstate New York, and finally pulling into the driveway of Big Pink, where The Basement Tapes were famously recorded in 1967.
Following the route traveled by Dylan and The Band from Manhattan to the West Saugerties on their way to Big Pink, From The Village to The Basement is a virtual road trip with narrator Jeff Bridges serving as tour guide, recounting the history and mystery of The Basement Tapes, their influence on American music and the bootleg culture these recordings launched.
