The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack
These pictures were taken by Barry Feinstein at the Aust
Ferry across the River Severn from England towards Wales in May 1966. In the
background is the Severn Bridge that eventually replaced the ferry. The first
photo (found on www.amazon.com before the
release) is an alternate take, but it does have the "new" car number plate of
"1235 RD". The second photo is the final version. The third photo, advertising
the 2DVD set, is the same take as the final version, but it still has the
original number plate "of "540 CYN"!
Two pictures
I took of the Aust Ferry in 1964 are shown out of interest below.
This page is part of a list of original releases by release date of international commercially-released regular stereo Dylan albums. They do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem list. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Promo releases of regular albums are now listed here and no longer in the former yearly Promo sections. This release on 30 Aug 2005 is associated with the documentary film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese and which was shown both in the USA and on BBC2 in the UK on 26-27 Sep 2005. For releases of this album in Columbia multi-packs, see International Album Releases (Regular) - Multi-Packs. |
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Revised 16 September, 2024.
Final front design- the words "A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE" have been added |
US release (2CD set), Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937, 30 Aug 2005. Thanks to Ian Woodward for noticing that the final design has been changed in a couple of ways from that used in original promo pictures. The most obvious one is that the words "A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE" have been added in blue under the album title. Less obvious is that the car number plate has been changed from "540 CYN" in the original photo to "1235 RD" (a reference to Rainy Day Women #12 & 35)! The full original photograph (of which this is a crop) can be found in the book "Early Dylan" by Barry Feinstein, Daniel Kramer and Jim Marshall (Little, Brown & Co, 1999). |
Original 1966 Daniel Kramer photo |
Thanks to Harold Lepidus and Ian Woodward for news that the track list for The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home is now finalised as: CD1: When I Got Troubles (1959), Rambler, Gambler (1960); This Land Is Your Land (live at New York's Carnegie Chapter Hall, 1961); Song to Woody" (Bob Dylan, 1961, already released); Dink's Song (1961); I Was Young When I Left Home (1961); Sally Gal (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan outtake, 1962); Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (demo, 1963); Man of Constant Sorrow (from TV Show "Folksongs and More Folksongs", 1963); Blowin' In The Wind" (live at New York Town Hall, 1963); Masters of War (live at New York Town Hall, 1963); A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (live at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1963); When the Ship Comes In (live at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1963); Mr. Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home early version with Rambling Jack Elliott, 1964); Chimes of Freedom (live at Newport, R.I., Folk Festival, 1964); It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bringing It All Back Home alternate take, 1965). CD2: She Belongs To Me (Bringing It All Back Home alternate take, 1965); Maggie's Farm (live at Newport, R.I., Folk Festival, 1965); It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry (Highway 61 Revisited alternate take, 1965); Tombstone Blues (Highway 61 Revisited alternate take, 1965); Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Highway 61 Revisited alternate take, 1965); Desolation Row (Highway 61 Revisited alternate take, 1965); Highway 61 Revisited (Highway 61 Revisited alternate take, 1965); Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat (Blonde On Blonde alternate take, 1966); Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again (Blonde On Blonde alternate take, 1966, now also released on The 1966 Live Recordings, 2016); Visions of Johanna (Blonde on Blonde alternate take, 1965); Ballad of a Thin Man (live at Edinburgh's ABC Theatre, 1966) "Like A Rolling Stone" (live at Manchester, England's Free Trade Hall, 1966, already released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966) |
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Insert included with 2006 Dylan album US reissues, reverse scan by Jack from Canada |
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Slides taken by me using 127 transparency film of the Aust Ferry and the Severn Bridge (then without the roadway) in Aug 1964. The colours on the left-hand picture are somewhat faded, which shows I would have been better using black and white film! Thanks to Hamish Johnson for reminding me that although the Aust Ferry and the subsequent Severn Bridge can be said to "link England to Wales", both ends are actually in Gloucestershire! | ||
Thanks to Fred Muller for pointing out that Richard Manuel is not credited in the booklet with this album for playing piano on Like A Rolling Stone - he is credited in the booklet with The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966.
Exciting news is that the documentary film and DVD contain previously unsuspected live footage of the Manchester Free Trade Hall show, including the "Judas!" shout!
This release means four Rarities are removed from the list:
BDC71 Dink's Song (traditional) - from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, from bobdylan.com in Sep 2001, see Online Performances). An excerpt of this song was included in the Highway 61 Interactive CD-ROM, 1995
R-0289 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Witmark demo version from Columbia US promo mono 12" LP, different from the regular Freewheelin' version, 1963
R-0373 When The Ship Comes In - live, Carnegie Hall, New York, 26 Oct 1963, from the unreleased 1964 Columbia album Bob Dylan In Concert, see 1964
R-0300 Maggie's Farm - recorded live with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Newport Folk Festival, 25 Jul 1965, from Murray Lerner's film Festival, 1967 (see VHS & DVD 1960s), also available on a 1991 Italian CD Bob Dylan 1 accompanying an issue of Il Dizionario del Rock (The Dictionary of Rock) - a series of magazines in the early 1990s, see Questionable Releases
(Two songs from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival appear on the 208 track download set 50th Anniversary Collection 1965, Columbia/Legacy (USA), 4 Dec 2015, see 2015:
R-1590 Tombstone Blues, Contemporary Songs Workshop, Newport Folk Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, 24 Jul 1965
R-1591 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, Newport Folk Festival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, 25 Jul 1965
I Was Young When I Left Home (traditional) from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 22 Dec 1961, was first officially released on a bonus disc with the limited edition of "Love And Theft", Sep 2001, see 2001 and 2002. It is released here with a spoken intro, so the version without the intro remains a rarity as R-0514.
The take of Sally Gal is new - I previously had this listed as R-0580, unreleased Freewheelin' out-take from a 1962 Columbia acetate that surfaced in May 1982. Bob Stacy informs me that this version is in fact new, and does not match the two circulating Freewheelin' out-take versions! This newly released performance is take 1, whereas the two previously circulating performances were take 3 (R-0580) and take 4. These have now been released, along with takes 2 and 5, on the very limited Sony Music Europe 4CD set The 50th Anniversary Collection, Dec 2012.
The take of Phantom Engineer is also new - I previously had this listed as R-0394, an early version of this song, recorded at Columbia Studios, New York, 15 June 1965, surfaced in 1980 on unreleased Columbia acetates, see 1980. I had R-0394 listed as an alternate take to the one released on The Bootleg Series Vols.1-3, but Bob Stacy now tells me that they are the same. A definite alternate take is now released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home! and R-0394 has been removed from the Rarities list.
The Time Has Come by The Chambers Brothers (Columbia, 1967) |
Tombstone Blues is also new, with a background vocal on the choruses which may be the Chambers Brothers (a gospel/soul group with several 1960s hits). A take with the Chambers Brothers on background vocals does circulate, but they're more prominent than here. (That take is to be released on a new Mike Bloomfield Columbia US box set, Bloomfield: From His Head To His Heart To His Hands - A Retrospective, 4 Feb 2014, see 2014.) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues is also new, as is Highway 61 Revisited. Of the Blonde On Blonde out-takes, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat and Stuck Inside Of Mobile are new. Visions Of Johanna is also a new take, previously unknown to collectors, not the same as the circulating "fast" version, although it does contain the line "he examines the nightingale's code". |
Bloomfield: From His Head To His Heart To His Hands - A Retrospective, Mike Bloomfield boxed set (Columbia, 2014) |
The studio out-take versions of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; She Belongs To Me and Desolation Row (the "boiled guts of birds" version), already circulate, but of course appear here in much better quality. It's All Over Now Baby, Blue is dated wrongly as 16 Jan 1965, and almost certainly comes from 13 Jan 1965. The date of 16 Jan 1965 may have been when selected takes were extracted to a compilation reel for consideration for the album.
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the information that the whole album is available for download from iTunes.
Out-takes from this album have been officially released as follows:
No Direction Home - Bob Dylan" - 2DVD set (2005): I Can't Leave Her Behind (R-0654); Blowin' In The Wind (live, R-0714); Girl Of The North Country (live, R-0715); Man Of Constant Sorrow (live, R-0716); Mr. Tambourine Man (live, R-0717); Love Minus Zero/No Limit (live, R-0718); Like A Rolling Stone (live, R-0719); One Too Many Mornings (live, R-0720), see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3
"Exclusive Out-takes From 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack'"- Three Track Download Only Single (2005): Baby, Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams) - out-take from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 25 Apr 1962 (R-0725); Mr. Tambourine Man (live, R-0726); Outlaw Blues - alternate take from Bringing It All Back Home, recorded Columbia Studios, New York, 13 Jan 1965 (R-0727), see 2005
"No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7 - Exclusive Radio Sampler" - US radio station CD, Columbia/Legacy (2005): Masters Of War - live, New York Town Hall, 12 Apr 1963 (R-0728, 5:21), extended version of track from The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home (4:43); Highway 61 Revisited banter, Columbia Studios, New York, Aug 1965 (R-0729); Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (R-0730, 5:08), edited version of track from The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home (5:44); Highway 61 Revisited intro, Columbia Studios, New York, Aug 1965 (R-0731), see 2005
Thanks to Wil Gielen for the pictures of three No Direction Home artwork
proofs. These are not from the manufacturing/printing factory
or the original masters used to make the release artwork. These are samples of
the artwork detail information sent out from Sony Music in the USA to their
Japanese office as computer files. Shown are copies made from the files, they
are not the original sheets used directly in the factory. Each page measures
14.4" x 10".
Vinyl and Tape Releases
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - stereo 4LP test pressing, Classic Records/Columbia C2K-93937-1 (200gm) (USA), Jun 2006:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - stereo 4LP boxed set, Classic Records/Columbia C2K-93937-1 (200gm) (USA), Jun 2006:
The front of the box has a wider crop of the original photograph than the CD set and the text "Deluxe LP Edition" below the title. The four records are housed in two gatefold sleeves, one of which is an alternate take of the cover photo of Bringing It All Back Home and the other of which is an alternate take of the cover photo of Blonde On Blonde. The booklet uses many wider crops of the photos from the CD booklet rather than just enlargements. There is also a release Classic Records/Columbia C2K-93937-1 (RW) in regular weight vinyl.
Thanks to Robert Kornovich and Gerd Rundel for further information and pictures.
CD Releases
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - promo 2CD sets, Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA), 12 Jul 2005; Columbia/Legacy 520358 2 (Europe), Aug 2005:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - 2CD set, Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA)/Columbia/Legacy 520358 2 (Europe), 30 Aug 2005:
Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA):
Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - sealed slipcase with sticker (my copy) |
The 2CD set comes in a slipcase with a 60-page bound booklet with previously unpublished photographs and essays by Andrew Loog Oldham (former manager of the Rolling Stones) and Al Kooper, plus performance notes by Eddie Gorodetsky. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information about the US version in a 6"x12" long box, Columbia/Legacy 3OC 93937. Thanks to Harald Sigvartsen for pointing out that the picture on page 46 of the booklet is the one used for the front of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Bob Dylan 1965-1966 The Cutting Edge in Nov 2015. |
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Columbia/Legacy 8887512440211 (USA) - front of Book 3 of Collector's Edition (my copy) |
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Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - detail of rear of booklet |
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Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - outside of rear insert |
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Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - detail of front insert |
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Columbia/Legacy 3OC 93937 (USA) - front picture from www.slcd.com |
Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - inside of rear insert |
Columbia/Legacy C2K 93937 (USA) - CD2 |
Columbia/Legacy 3OC 93937 (USA) - rear picture from www.slcd.com |
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Columbia/Legacy 520358 2 (Europe):
The UK slipcase also contains a flyer advertising the 5 Oct 2005 release in the UK of the "No Direction Home" 2DVD set, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.
Purchases of this album in Holland and reportedly at HMV in the UK have included a new release of the promo CD Chronicles Volume One 6 Song Sampler, see 2004
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - 2CD set, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88697732942 (Europe), Nov 2010:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - promo 2CD set, Sony Music MHCP-794/5 (Japan), 30 Aug 2005:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" - commercial 2CD set, Sony Music MHCP-794/5 (Japan), 14 Sep 2005:
This release has two booklets, the English language 56-page booklet, and a Japanese language 76-page booklet. It comes in a slimline 2CD jewel case in a card slipcase with an obi and two stickers. The obi has a price of ¥3,780 (¥3,600 plus sales tax), an original US release date of 30 Aug 2005 and the Japanese withdrawal date of 13 Mar 2006. Wil Gielen's promo copy has numbered promo stickers on the rear of the slipcase and the rear insert, as well as text "SAMPLE LOANED" in the clear centres of each CD.
Thanks to Sheiji Murata and Wil Gielen for information and scans.
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