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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack

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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack Bob Dylan CD
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  • Artist: Bob Dylan
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2006
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 827969393727
  • Item Number: SNY939372
  • Release date: 08/30/2005
  • 1. When I Got Troubles
  • 2. Rambler, Gambler [Version]
  • 3. This Land Is Your Land [Live]
  • 4. Song to Woody
  • 5. Dink's Song [Demo Version]
  • 6. I Was Young When I Left Home [Version]
  • 7. Sally Gal [Alternate Take]
  • 8. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Demo Version]
  • 9. Man of Constant Sorrow
  • 10. Blowin' in the Wind [Live]
  • 11. Masters of War [Live]
  • 12. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [Live]
  • 13. When the Ship Comes In [Live]
  • 14. Mr. Tambourine Man [Alternate Take]
  • 15. Chimes of Freedom [Live]
  • 16. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Alternate Take]
  • 1. She Belongs to Me [Alternate Take]
  • 2. Maggie's Farm [Live]
  • 3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Alternate Take]
  • 4. Tombstone Blues [Alternate Take]
  • 5. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues [Alternate Take]
  • 6. Desolation Row [Alternate Take]
  • 7. Highway 61 Revisited [Alternate Take]
  • 8. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat [Alternate Take]
  • 9. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again [Alternate Take]
  • 10. Visions of Johanna [Alternate Take]
  • 11. Ballad of a Thin Man [Live]
  • 12. Like a Rolling Stone [Live]
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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack by Bob Dylan on CD


The seventh volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series doubles as the soundtrack to No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's feature-length documentary covering Dylan's career from its beginnings to 1966 (it was aired in two parts on PBS in September 2005 and released in expanded form on DVD that same month). Unlike the previous three installments of The Bootleg Series, which focused exclusively on live concerts, No Direction Home is assembled from a variety of sources, including home recordings, publishing demos, alternate studio takes, and live recordings, with the first disc devoted to early acoustic recordings and the second to electric music. In fact, No Direction Home proceeds chronologically, filling in gaps between the proper albums or, more often, providing a parallel history of the most productive era of Dylan's career. All of this material -- with the exception of "Song to Woody," taken from his debut, and a cataclysmic version of "Like a Rolling Stone" taken from the Royal Albert Hall show that was released as The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 -- is previously unreleased, and much of it has not been widely bootlegged (and the cuts that have been bootlegged, such as "Dink's Song," have never been heard in such crystal-clear fidelity). Where the inaugural edition of The Bootleg Series had many previously unreleased Dylan originals, there is only one here, the tentative opener, "When I Got Troubles," a sweet, simple 1959 song that finds Dylan in his formative stage. In place of unheard songs are a slew of alternate versions of familiar tunes. On the first disc, these are largely live versions of such warhorses as "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," recorded when the songs were still fresh. These live performances have an immediacy and intimacy that not only illustrate what a powerful folksinger Dylan was, but also suggest how the songs might have sounded when they were new tunes. Toward the end of the first disc, a
  • Artist: Bob Dylan
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2006
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 827969393727
  • Item Number: SNY939372
  • Release date: 08/30/2005
  • Label: Sony/Legacy
  • Genre: Pop/Rock, Folk, Stage & Screen
  • Style: Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter, Political Folk, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Soundtracks
  • Album Time: 141:27

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  • The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack Bob Dylan CD
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack Bob Dylan CD

Editorial Reviews

Much like in The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese makes a figure of God-like power more relatable -- without diminishing an ounce of his mysterious power -- in the remarkable achievement that is No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. Martin Scorsese manages to make the inscrutable performer very human by making clear how quickly Dylan can adapt to whatever surrounds him, as well as absorb whatever strikes his fancy. By showing so many of the folk artists that influenced the young Dylan, it becomes easier to understand the persona he developed in his early career. Where the film surpasses earlier works on Dylan (most specifically the still fascinating Don't Look Back) is in the way Scorsese details the various forces both internal and external that led to Dylan embracing the change in his sound that alienated many in his audience. There are edits that make connections even longtime Dylanphiles may not have considered. Scorsese's sure hand becomes even more apparent in the second half, which opens with a dizzying sequence that makes the viewer feel the claustrophobia and pressure Dylan was experiencing at the time. The film works as history thanks to the wealth of remarkable footage Scorsese was granted access to, but the most fascinating aspect is that the film feels as psychologically penetrating as any film could be about an artist who seems to pride himself on his successful ability to stay unknowable. Dylan is still inscrutable at the end of the film, but in some way he has been made less mythic and more human thanks to Scorsese's skill. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide