High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Basement Tapes is a collection of over 100 songs recorded by Bob Dylan and his then-backing group, The Band in the summer of 1967 in West Saugerties, New York, just outside of Woodstock. Almost all tracks were recorded in the basement of a house known as the Big Pink, where members of the Band were staying. Several of the songs are originals, but the majority of the sessions were devoted to covering traditional folk and blues ballads, rock songs, and country music.