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The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home

Bob Dylan

Columbia, 2005

REVIEW BY: David Bowling

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 01/27/2008

And the Bootleg Series goes on and on and on and on………………and on.

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack is the seventh volume of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series. Originally begun as a way of releasing rare and never-released archival material, it has reached the point of redundancy and is quickly becoming inconsequential.

The extended title, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, is misleading as it is not really a soundtrack to the biographical Dylan film of the same name. Rather it provides a jumping off place to explore similar material that was recorded during the same time period.

No Direction Home is a 26 song two-CD set that is filled with live versions of mostly well-known songs (nine), alternate takes of again well-known songs (12), plus a few demos, home recordings and the like. The music is not bad. If you are a hardcore Dylan fan this set may amuse you for awhile. Oddly enough, if you aren’t familiar with Dylan’s material from this era, the live tracks can provide a good introduction.