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TheOldMole Jul 15 2005 11:48 AM

More than two dozen previously unreleased Bob Dylan tracks will be in the stores on Aug. 30, when the double-disc set "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" is released. The album is a companion to the Martin Scorsese documentary "Bob Dylan: No Direction Home," scheduled to have its premiere on PBS on Sept. 26, Reuters reported. The two-disc set, part of Columbia/Legacy's "Bootleg Series," begins with what is believed to be the first original song recorded by Mr. Dylan, "When I Got Troubles," taped by a high school friend in Minnesota in 1959. Also included are a live version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and alternate takes of "Mr. Tambourine Man," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and "She Belongs to Me." Aug. 30 will also open an 18-day period of exclusivity at Starbucks for another album, "Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962," featuring recordings from Mr. Dylan's early performances in New York.

sharpie Jul 15 2005 12:05 PM

Word on No Direction Home, the PBS series, is that it is really really good. The Gaslight show was to have been a Columbia release way back when. It even got pressed, with a cover and everything, and ended up as a widely distributed bootleg. I do love the recent Bootleg Series releases, the '64 Carnegie Hall show, the '66 "Royal Albert Hall" show, the '74 Rolling Thunder release. His throwaway songs from the early days (I'll Keep It With Mine, If You're Gonna Leave Leave Now, Please Crawl Out Your Window, Who Killed Davey Moore?, etc.) would be the best songs written by many successful songwriters. His last couple of albums have also been great.

TheOldMole Jul 15 2005 02:55 PM

Does Dylan deserve the Nobel Prize for literature?

sharpie Jul 15 2005 03:31 PM

We talked about that here. I wouldn't object but Philip Roth would.