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Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes by The New Basement Tapes
Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes is an album by The New Basement Tapes, released in 2014. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 12 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Kansas City”, on 12 lists with a best position of #14.
Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes came out on Harvest on November 11, 2014, and it started with a stash of newly uncovered words: lyrics Bob Dylan wrote by hand in 1967, between his motorcycle accident and the first sessions of what became The Basement Tapes. T Bone Burnett produced it and gathered a small supergroup to set the words to music: Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford.
The result is a rootsy, ramshackle hootenanny of a record, five writers taking turns at the same decades-old pages and each finding a different ghost in them, from rattling blues rock to back-porch lament. "Kansas City" is the track rock radio took to. It came in a standard edition with 15 songs and a deluxe version with 20, the group turns up in the Showtime documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, and the cover is Jacob Riis's 1888 photograph of a New York alley, "Mullen's Alley".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas City | 12 | #14 | – | 2014–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.