As Robertson described it, "We used the same kind of mike on everything. A bit of an anti-studio approach. And we realized what was comfortable to us was turning wherever we were into a studio. Like the Big Pink technique." That technique influenced groups including the Beatles, writes Griffin, who calls their Twickenham "Get Back" sessions in early 1969 an effort to record "in the honest, live, no frills, no overdubs, down home way that the Hawks/Band did for The Basement Tapes". "Listening to "The Basement Tapes" now, it seems to be the beginning of what is called Americana or alt.country," wrote Billy Bragg. "The thing about alt.country which makes it 'alt' is that it is not polished. It is not rehearsed or slick. Neither are "The Basement Tapes". Remember that "The Basement Tapes" holds a certain cultural weight which is timeless—and the best Americana does that as well." The songs' influence has been detected by critics in many subsequent acts. Stuart Bailie wrote, "If rock'n'roll is the sound of a party in session, The Basement Tapes were the morning after: bleary, and a bit rueful but dashed with emotional potency. Countless acts—Mercury Rev, Cowboy Junkies, Wilco, the Waterboys—have since tried to get back to that place." For Elvis Costello, "The Basement Tapes" "sound like they were made in a cardboard box. I think [Dylan] was trying to write songs that sounded like he'd just found them under a stone. As if they sound like real folk songs—because if you go back into the folk tradition, you will find songs as dark and as deep as these." In 2003, "Rolling Stone" magazine ranked "The Basement Tapes" number 291 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 292 in a 2012 revised list. In a special issue devoted to Dylan's work, "Q" magazine awarded the record five stars, its highest rating, commenting that "Dylan's work is by turns haunting, hilarious and puzzling—and all of it taps into centuries of American song". Between 1985 and 2013, Columbia issued five additional 1967 recordings by Dylan from Big Pink: take 2 of "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" on "Biograph" in 1985, "I Shall Be Released" and "Santa-Fe" on "The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991" in 1991, "I'm Not There (1956)" on the "I'm Not There" soundtrack in 2007, and "Minstrel Boy" on "The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)" in 2013.