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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)

Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)

Band: Bob Dylan Title: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7) Rating: Release Date: 30 August, 2005 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: When I Got Troubles 2: Rambler, Gambler 3: This Land Is Your Land 4: Song To Woody 5: Dink's Song 6: I Was Young When I Left Home 7: Sally Gal 8: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 9: Man Of Constant Sorrow 10: Blowin' In The Wind 11: Masters Of War 12: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 13: When The Ship Comes In 14: Mr. Tambourine Man 15: Chimes Of Freedom 16: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 17: She Belongs To Me 18: Maggie's Farm 19: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 20: Tombstone Blues 21: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 22: Desolation Row 23: Highway 61 Revisited 24: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 25: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 26: Visions Of Johanna 27: Ballad Of A Thin Man 28: Like A Rolling Stone

Editoral Review The double CD is sequenced chronologically and features 26 rare and unreleased recordings (most between 1961 and 1966), including 1959's muddied "When I Got Troubles,' reportedly the first song Dylan ever put to tape, and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," performed live soon after Dylan's arrival in New York. Book-ended with an embryonic recording made by a high school friend and a live, boisterous take of "Like a Rolling Stone" less than seven years later, the fifth release in the Bob Dylan Bootleg series (and the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary of the same name) proffers just how far the folk idol turned rock star had come between his last year in a Minnesota high school and 1966's contentious UK tour. While the usual suspects are present--"Don't Think Twice It's Alright," "Masters of War," "Mr. Tambourine Man"--this collection unravels the unexpected, including an outtake from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan ("Sally Gal"), captivating alternate takes of "She Belongs To Me," "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and "Visions of Johanna" (with full band) and the ripping electric version of "Maggie's Farm" that throttled the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and carried Dylan over the genre-influencing threshold into generation-altering icon status. --Scott Holter Recommended Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [BOX SET] The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert Bob Dylan Live 1975 (The Bootleg Series Volume 5) Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall No Direction Home [DVD] Don't Look Back [DVD] .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs