The previously unreleased song, "Dress It Up, Better Have It All" is in the rockabilly vein and was among the tracks Dylan recorded with The Band in 1967, when he was thought to be inactive and recovering from a motorcycle accident.

"The way we played in the basement had nothing to do with the way we played with Bob on tour, and it had nothing to do with the way we'd played as the Hawks or with Ronnie Hawkins," the Band's guitarist Robbie Robertson writes in the liner notes to the new album.