Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan and the Band

I have been listening to the Basement Tapes - (The 1975 version) Clothes Line Saga, Lo and Behold, Orange Juice Blues, Million Dollar Bash. Trying to get psyched up after reading about the sessions at the Big Pink in 1967 - in the Rolling Stone 40th anniversary about the Summer of Love, and what was happening all over the country during 1967. Tying together Greil Marcus' obsession with the recording going on then in Woodstock, and Harry Smith's anthology, etc. etc. Trying to figure out an angle for a Band tribute show as part of the Americana Music Tribute series; toying with re-creating the Last Waltz, or this Dylan tie-in. Have to do some more thinking and creative brainstorming. Greil Marcus says "there are two elements the three sessions do share, a feeling of age, a kind of classicism, and an absolute commitment by the singers and musicians to their material. Beneath the easy rolling surface of The Basement Tapes there is some serious business going on. What was taking shape, as Dylan and the Band fiddled with the tunes, was less a style than a spirit- a spirit that had to do with a delight in friendship and invention.As you listen to the music they made, you'll be hard put to pin it down, and likely not too interested in doing so." "The basement tapes, more than any other music that has been heard from Dylan and The Band sould like the music of a partnership. " etc. etc. Sounds like a testing and a discovery of memory and roots.