In 1967, at the same time Bob Dylan and The Band were playing fast and loose with the unwitting invention of alt.Americana, Dylan was writing more lyrics than he had tunes for. Long stashed away, the words were recently unearthed and given to T-Bone Burnett to arrange into songs. The results are mixed. It's impossible not to think of how these songs would have sounded performed by the young Bob, but you have to tip the hat to the likes of Elvis Costello (the most obvious choice for such an important folk/rock project), My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens, and Marcus Mumford for putting skin (frequently sheath-like, occasionally ill-fitting) around a cache of words that many thought were lost forever. thenewbasementtapes.com