Bob Dylan, No Direction Home - A Martin Scorsese film to be aired in two parts on Monday/Tuesday, September26/27

Forever-Young Dylan
Scorsese’s PBS Documentary Chronicles Early Years Of Folk Icon
By ROGER CATLIN, Hartford Courant TV Critic

A crashing, apocalyptic version of "Like a Rolling Stone" begins Martin Scorsese's epic documentary on Bob Dylan's early career. Dylan saved his biggest hit single for the end of his bracing, divisive live shows in 1966, turning it into a declaration of independence from purists who preferred he forever remain the topical folk troubadour.

As such, the song frames and gives a name to Scorsese's "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan," a documentary that will be broadcast Monday and Tuesday on public television. Released last Tuesday on a double-DVD package with extras, it will be PBS's season highlight. It's not only the longest biography ever presented on "American Masters," it also covers the shortest period - from the singer's early years until his June 1966 motorcycle crash. - complete review

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Soundtrack to Scorsese documentary packed with unreleased cuts (Billboard, July 14, 2005)

NEW YORK - More than two-dozen previously unreleased Bob Dylan tracks will be found on “No Direction Home: The Soundtrack,” due in stores Aug. 30. The double-disc set, the seventh volume in Columbia/Legacy’s “Bootleg Series,” is the companion to Martin Scorsese’s Dylan documentary of the same name, which premieres Sept. 26 on PBS.

Sequenced in chronological order, “No Direction Home” boasts 26 rarities, beginning with what is believed to be the first original song Dylan ever recorded (“When I Got Troubles,” taped by a high school friend in Minnesota in 1959). Complete article...