Editing Robbie Robertson (section)

===="Basement Tapes" period====
{{see also|The Basement Tapes|
The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete}}
[[File:The_Big_Pink_(crop).jpg|left|thumb|The "Big Pink" house in 2006. "Big Pink" was the house where Bob Dylan and the Band's [[The Basement Tapes|''Basement Tapes'']] were recorded, and the music from the Band album ''[[Music From Big Pink]]'' was written.]] 
On July 29, 1966, Dylan sustained an injured neck from a motorcycle accident, and retreated to a quiet domestic life with his new wife and child in upstate New York.<ref name="down_the_highway">{{cite book|last1=Sounces|first1=Howard|title=Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan|date=2011|publisher=Grove Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0802145529|edition=revised and updated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GjRsF5AT_oC}}</ref>{{rp|216–219}} Some of the members of the Hawks were living at the [[Hotel Chelsea|Chelsea Hotel]] in New York City at the time,<ref name=down_the_highway/>{{rp|220}} and were kept on a weekly retainer by Dylan's management.<ref name=bowman_band_bio_4/>

In February 1967, Dylan invited the members of the Hawks to come up to [[Woodstock, New York]] to work on music.<ref name=bowman_band_bio_4/> Robertson had met a French-Canadian woman on the [[Paris]] stop of Dylan's 1966 world tour,<ref name="rs_rr_intv_1987">{{cite magazine|last1=Goldberg|first1=Michael|date=November 19, 1987|title=The Second Coming of Robbie Robertson|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-second-coming-of-robbie-robertson-19871119|magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|publication-date=November 19, 1987}}</ref> and the two moved into a house in the Woodstock area.<ref name=band_bio/>{{rp|135}} The remaining three members of the Hawks rented a house near [[West Saugerties, New York]]; it was later dubbed "[[Big Pink]]" because of its pink exterior.<ref name=down_the_highway/>{{rp|220–221}}

Dylan and the members of the Hawks worked together at the Big Pink house every day to rehearse and generate ideas for new songs, many of which they recorded in Big Pink's makeshift basement studio.<ref name=band_bio/>{{rp|137}} The recordings were made between the late spring and autumn of 1967.<ref name="rs_basement_tapes_complete_14">{{Cite magazine |first=Andy |last=Greene |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-complete-basement-tapes-bootlegs-released-november-20140826 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013114328/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-complete-basement-tapes-bootlegs-released-november-20140826 |archive-date=2017-10-13 |title=Bob Dylan's Complete, Legendary 'Basement Tapes' Shall Be Released |date=2014-08-26 |access-date=2024-02-04 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] }}</ref> Previous Hawks member Levon Helm returned to the group in August 1967.<ref name=band_box_2005/>{{rp|27}} By this time, Robertson's guitar style had evolved to be more supportive of the songs and less devoted to displaying speed and virtuosity.<ref name="Drozdowski"/>

In time, word about these sessions began to circulate, and in 1968, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine co-founder [[Jann Wenner]] brought attention to these tracks in an article entitled "Dylan's Basement Tape Should Be Released".<ref name=rs_basement_tapes_complete_14/><ref name="rs_jann_wenner_1968">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dylans-basement-tape-should-be-released-19680622 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227225330/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dylans-basement-tape-should-be-released-19680622 |archive-date=December 27, 2012 |title=Dylan's Basement Tape Should Be Released |author=[[Jann Wenner]] |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=June 22, 1968 |access-date=February 4, 2024}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 1969, a bootleg album with a plain white cover compiled by two incognito music industry insiders featured a collection of seven tracks from these sessions. The album, which became known as ''[[Great White Wonder|The Great White Wonder]]'', began to appear in independent record stores and receive radio airplay. This album became a runaway success<ref name=bootleg_book/>{{rp|42–46}} and helped to launch the [[bootleg recording]] industry.<ref name="bootlegging_bob">{{cite book|last=Klagg|first=James C.|title=Bob Dylan And Philosophy|editor-last1=Vernezze|editor-first1=Peter|editor-last2=Porter|editor-first2=Carl|publisher=Open Court Publishing Company|location=Peru, Illinois|date=2005|page=40|chapter=Chapter 4: Great White Wonder: The Morality of Bootlegging Bob|isbn=0812695925}}</ref>

In 1975, Robertson produced an official compilation, ''[[The Basement Tapes]]'', which included a selection of tracks from the sessions. An exhaustive collection of all 138 extant recordings was released in 2014 as ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete]]''.<ref name=rs_basement_tapes_complete_14/>