Don't think twice, watch ....No Direction Home: Bob Dylan..tonight

[RedEarth]

Don't think twice, watch this

BY GLENN GARVIN
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• No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, 9-11 tonight, WPBT-PBS 2

In a hilariously telling moment in No Direction Home, a British audience is booing Bob Dylan's new reliance on electric guitars and drums instead of the traditional folkie acoustic instruments. ''Judas!'' screams one outraged ex-fan. A sneering Dylan turns to his band and demands: ``Play it bleeping loud!''

If there's a single thread running through Dylan's career as ''a musical expeditionary,'' as he likes to call himself, it's the refusal to let anyone else -- friends, lovers, managers, critics, and especially fans -- call the shots. And if there's a single greatest strength among the many of this fascinating film biography of Dylan, it's the refusal to soft-pedal his sheer orneriness.

Directed by Martin Scorsese and airing as part of PBS' American Masters series, the two-part No Direction Home (the second episode screens Tuesday at 9 p.m.) is unusual and perhaps unique in that Scorsese had no personal contact with Dylan at all.

Instead, the singer sat for 10 hours of video interviews shot by his archivist-manager, Jeff Rosen. Scorsese pieced together the rest from interviews with Dylan's old running mates (including Allen Ginsburg, Peter Yarrow and Maria Muldaur), rare concert footage and material like photos and lyric sheets supplied by the singer himself.

The result is a testament to Scorsese's considerable story-telling skills. With no narration at all, No Direction Home is an intricate yet seamless account of an elusive subject whose own friends call him a shape-shifter.

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[Seansky]

1. Has great reviews. I even set my timer to come on. Look forward to it

[Peter Frank]

2. I Saw Dylan & Willie Nelson,,,

...in Zebulon, NC last summer -- great show.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. For those who are not aware of his incredible talent and the sheer

volume of gifts he gave to us all.... I stopped at the M's for dialups sake....

A
A Fool Such as I
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
A Satisfied Mind
Abandoned Love
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Ain't A-Gonna Grieve
Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One)
Ain't No More Cane
Alberta #1
Alberta #2
All Along the Watchtower
All I Really Want to Do
All Over You
All the Tired Horses
Angelina
Apple Suckling Tree
Are You Ready?
Arthur McBride
As I Went Out One Morning

B
Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Baby, Stop Crying
Ballad For A Friend
Ballad in Plain D
Ballad of a Thin Man
Ballad Of Donald White
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Band Of The Hand (It's Hell Time Man!)
Belle Isle
Bessie Smith
Big Yellow Taxi
Billy 1
Billy 4
Billy 7
Billy (Main Title Theme)
Black Crow Blues
Black Diamond Bay
Blackjack Davey
Blind Willie McTell
Blood in My Eyes
Blowin' in the Wind
Blue Moon
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Bob Dylan's Blues
Bob Dylan's Dream
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
Boots of Spanish Leather
Born in Time
Broke Down Engine
Brownsville Girl
Buckets of Rain
Bunkhouse Theme
Bye and Bye

C
California
Call Letter Blues
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Wait
Canadee-i-o
Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)
Caribbean Wind
Cat's in the Well
Catfish
Changing of the Guards
Chimes of Freedom
Clean-Cut Kid
Clothes Line Saga
Cold Irons Bound
Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)
Copper Kettle
Corrina, Corrina
Country Pie
Covenant Woman
Cry A While

D
Dark Eyes
Day of the Locusts
Days of 49
Dead Man, Dead Man
Dear Landlord
Death is Not the End
Delia
Denise
Desolation Row
Diamond Joe
Dignity
Dirge
Dirt Road Blues
Disease of Conceit
Do Right to Me Baby
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Don't Ya Tell Henry
Down Along the Cove
Down in the Flood
Down the Highway
Drifter's Escape
Driftin' Too Far from Shore
Dusty Old Fairgrounds

E
Early Mornin' Rain
Emotionally Yours
Endless Highway
Eternal Circle
Every Grain of Sand
Everything is Broken

F
Farewell
Farewell Angelina
Father of Night
Final Theme
Fixin' to Die
Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Foot of Pride
Forever Young
Frankie & Albert
Freight Train Blues
Froggie Went a Courtin'
From a Buick 6

G
Gates of Eden
George Jackson
Get Your Rocks Off!
Girl of the North Country
Go 'Way Little Boy
God Knows
Goin' to Acapulco
Going, Going, Gone
Golden Loom
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Gospel Plow
Got My Mind Made Up
Gotta Serve Somebody
Gotta Travel On
Guess I'm Doin' Fine
Gypsy Lou

H
Had a Dream About You, Baby
Handy Dandy
Hard Times
Hard Times in New York Town
Hazel
He Was a Friend of Mine
Heart of Mine
Heartland
Hero Blues
High Water (for Charley Patton)
Highlands
Highway 51 Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
Honest With Me
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
House Carpenter
House of the Rising Sun
Hurricane

I
I Am a Lonesome Hobo
I and I
I Believe in You
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Shall Be Free
I Shall Be Free No.10
I Shall Be Released
I Threw It All Away
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Want You
I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
I'd Have You Any Time
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Remember You
Idiot Wind
If Dogs Run Free
If I Don't Be There By Morning
If Not for You
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
If You See Her, Say Hello
In My Time of Dyin'
In Search of Little Sadie
In the Garden
In the Summertime
Introduction by Kris Kristofferson
Is Your Love in Vain?
Isis
It Ain't Me, Babe
It Hurts Me Too
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

J
Jack-A-Roe
Jet Pilot
Jim Jones
Joey
John Brown
John Wesley Harding
Jokerman
Just Like a Woman
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

K
Katie's Been Gone
Kingsport Town
Knockin' on Heaven's Door

L
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay, Lady, Lay
Legionnaire's Disease
Lenny Bruce
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Let It Be Me
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Let's Keep It Between Us
Let's Stick Together
License to Kill
Like a Rolling Stone
Lily of the West
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Little Maggie
Little Sadie
Living the Blues
Lo and Behold!
Lone Pilgrim
Lonesome Day Blues
Long Ago, Far Away
Long Time Gone
Long-Distance Operator
Lord Protect My Child
Love Henry
Love Is Just A Four-letter Word
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Love Sick

M
Maggie's Farm
Make You Feel My Love
Mama, You Been on My Mind
Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Man in the Long Black Coat
Man of Constant Sorrow
Man of Peace
Man on the Street
Mary Ann
Masters of War
Maybe Someday
Meet Me in the Morning
Million Dollar Bash
Million Miles
Minstrel Boy
Mississippi
Mixed Up Confusion
Money Blues
Moonlight
Moonshiner
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Most of the Time
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Mozambique
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Tambourine Man
My Back Pages

[Minstrel Boy]

5. And N to Y, for the completists

He's the reason I'm Minstrel Boy, and a lot of other things besides.

N
Nashville Skyline Rag
Need a Woman
Neighborhood Bully
Never Gonna Be the Same Again
Never Say Goodbye
New Morning
New Pony
Night After Night
Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
No More Auction Block
No Time to Think
Nobody 'Cept You
North Country Blues
Not Dark Yet
Nothing was Delivered

O
Obviously Five Believers
Odds and Ends
Oh, Sister
On a Night Like This
On the Road Again
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
One More Night
One More Weekend
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
One Too Many Mornings
Only a Hobo
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Open the Door, Homer
Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
Outlaw Blues
Oxford Town

P
Paths of Victory
Peggy Day
Percy's Song
Playboys and Playgirls
Please, Mrs. Henry
Pledging My Time
Po' Boy
Political World
Poor Boy Blues
Positively 4th Street
Precious Angel
Precious Memories
Pressing On
Pretty Peggy-O
Property of Jesus

Q
Queen Jane Approximately
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Quit Your Low Down Ways

R
Ragged & Dirty
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Rambling, Gambling Willie
Rank Strangers to Me
Restless Farewell
Ring Them Bells
Rita May
River Theme
Rocks and Gravel
Romance in Durango
Ruben Remus

S
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Sally Sue Brown
Santa Fe
Sara
Sarah Jane
Saved
Saving Grace
See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Seeing the Real You at Last
Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Series of Dreams
Seven Curses
Seven Days
She Belongs to Me
She's Your Lover Now
Shelter from the Storm
Shenandoah
Shooting Star
Shot of Love
Sign Language
Sign On The Cross
Sign on the Window
Silent Weekend
Silvio
Simple Twist of Fate
Sittin' on Top of the World
Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence
Slow Train
Solid Rock
Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart
Something There is About You
Something's Burning, Baby
Song to Woody
Spanish Harlem Incident
Spanish is the Loving Tongue
Stack A Lee
Stage Fright
Standing In The Doorway
Standing On The Highway
Steel Bars
Step It Up And Go
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Sugar Baby
Summer Days
Suze (The Cough Song)
Sweetheart Like You

T
T.V. Talkin' Song
Take a Message to Mary
Take Me as I Am
Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Talkin' World War III Blues
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Talking New York
Tangled Up in Blue
Tears of Rage
Tell Me
Tell Me, Momma
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Temporary Like Achilles
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
The Boxer
The Death Of Emmett Till
The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Man in Me
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Shape I'm In
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Wandering Kind
The Weight
The Wicked Messenger
They Killed Him
Things Have Changed
This Wheel's on Fire
Three Angels
Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Til I Fell In Love With You
Time Passes Slowly
Tiny Montgomery
To Be Alone with You
To Ramona
Tombstone Blues
Tomorrow is a Long Time
Tomorrow Night
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Too Much of Nothing
Tough Mama
Train A-Travelin'
Trouble
Trouble In Mind
True Love Tends to Forget
Trust Yourself
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Turkey Chase
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Two Soldiers

U
Ugliest Girl in the World
Unbelievable
Under the Red Sky
Under Your Spell
Union Sundown
Up on Cripple Creek
Up to Me

V
Visions of Johanna

W
Walk Out In The Rain
Walkin' Down the Line
Wallflower
Walls of Red Wing
Wanted Man
Watching the River Flow
Watered Down Love
We Better Talk This Over
Wedding Song
Went to See the Gypsy
What Can I Do For You?
What Good Am I?
What Was It You Wanted?
Whatcha Gonna Do
When Did You Leave Heaven?
When He Returns
When I Paint My Masterpiece
When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
When the Ship Comes In
When You Awake
When You Gonna Wake Up?
Where Are You Tonight?
Where Teardrops Fall
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Wiggle Wiggle
Wigwam
Winterlude
With God on Our Side
Woogie Boogie
World Gone Wrong
Worried Blues


Y
Yazoo Street Scandal
Ye Shall Be Changed
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
You Angel You
You Changed My Life
You Wanna Ramble
You're a Big Girl Now
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You're Gonna Quit Me
You're No Good

[Beaverhausen]

4. The DVD is already for sale

This should be good!

http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=ol7E22xAmM&cds2Pid=8413&ean=97360310542&FRM=8

[milkyway]

6. It's excellent, exhilarating, a treasure, but...

Some critics have complained the documentary doesn't help us get to know Dylan. The project was started years ago by Dylan's management team. Scorsese was brought in late to put the material together. The documentary doesn't do a lot to tell us who Bob Dylan really is.

I myself think this critique is nonsense. I've loved Dylan's music since I first got to know it in 1975 as a college student, but I've never felt the need to know a lot about his personal life. I know the basics of his biography, and that's enough. I don't even try to find out lyrics that I'm unsure of, and I'm not interested much in other people's interpretation of a Dylan song. I'd rather the music reveal itself to me through my own lens.

What is amazing for me in this documentary is seeing the Dylan performances. There's a lot of footage that apparently has never been released before. Dylan is absolutely mesmerizing onstage. I was unaware of just how animated a performer Dylan was when he went electric (he even cups his hands to yell into the mic when he sings, "you used to ride on your chrome horse with your diplomat").

The DVD is well worth any price. Besides the documentary, it has some songs shown in their complete performance (the documentary only shows parts of them).

a kick for Bobby.

[Peter Frank]

7. Wow!!!

What a great production; Scorsese did a masterful job. ...can't wait for part 2.

[OKNancy]

8. What a great show

I wish a lot of young people here on DU could watch it. Tomorrow will be part 2, but if you can...watch part one.

[incapsulated]

9. That was wonderful!

I can't wait for part two, tomorrow. I'm definately interested in the DVD if it has the complete performances, I would love to see the rest of Man of Constant Sorrow in particular.

:)

[Peter Frank]

10. Me Too. I was Hoping to Hear Dylan's Entire Version...

...then there's always P2P.

[milkyway]

11. Part 2 is even better. And here's the list of songs shown in full on the

DVD:

"Blowin' in the Wind"--March 63--TV
"Girl from the North Country"--Feb 64--unaired Canadian TV show
"Man of Constant Sorrow"--March 64--TV
"Mr. Tambourine Man"--July 64--Newport (wow!)
"Love Minus Zero/No Limit"--May 65--London (wow!)
"Like a Rolling Stone"--May 66--Newcastle, England (wow!)
"One Too Many Mornings"--May 66--Liverpool, England

I like Part 2 quite a bit more than Part 1. My one nitpick about Part 1 is that it spends a lot of time leading up to his first album, but then considerably less between the first album and when Dylan went electric.

To me, the period when Dylan first went electric with his three albums might be the greatest burst of creativity in American history (and this from someone who at age 22 had already shared the stage with Martin Luther King and his "I have a dream" speech).

I've loved Dylan for thirty years, but I had drifted away from listening to Dylan for a while. Recently I've been listening to him a lot again, and I am absolutely stunned by how I now find his work. Like most, I always focused on the lyrics, but now that I'm older I appreciate how monumentally talented he is musically.

My son has been reading Shakespeare in school. I mentioned to him how amazing it is that 500 years later he is still so important to us and so widely read. I really think Dylan, likewise, has created a body of work that will endure for centuries.

[OneBlueSky]

12. exceptional! . . . Scorcese scores again! . . .

this was a GREAT show . . . brought back all kinds of memories, and it was amazing to see the early performance footage . . . what a lot of people may not remember is that most people became acquainted with Dylan's music via PP&M, the ones who first got his songs on the radio . . . without Dylan, I doubt that their career would have been anywhere near what it was . . .

can't wait for tomorrow night's conclusion . . . I believe that's when they'll cover the dustup at Newport when Dylan went electric . . . the myth is that Pete Seeger threatened to cut the power to the stage and, having known Pete for many years, I can believe it . . . it was years before he even agreed to put a pickup on his acoustic guitar so he wouldn't be so tied to the mike stand . . .

[milkyway]

13. kickin for Bobby.

[Peter Frank]

14. Brilliant!!! n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

15. I just realized that I missed part 1

Part 2 was great and the interview with Scorsese.
:cry:

[milkyway]

16. It's available now on DVD for about $20, with full-length performances of

seven songs (see my post above for a list).

[DemonFighterLives]

17. Thanks PBS is advertising for 75$ for 2 cds

and 100$ for 2 dvds. Of course that is with donations.

[madfloridian]

18. Both parts were absolutely great. His music was more like poetry.

I had forgotten his early years and how his music spoke to us so much.

[Peter Frank]

22. So True...

...Reminds me of a quote from Allen Collins, "The singer is the song."

[madfloridian]

19. Joan Baez was very prominent in the movie. Beautiful gal.

Boy, could she sing.

[BrewerJohn]

20. I haven't seen the whole thing yet

(had to tape the first part but saw the beginning and end of it, and all of tonight), but what I saw was riveting, even for an old Dylan fan like me. Seeing the unreleased performance footage and hearing the bits of raw studio sessions was a rare treat. Scorsese did a great job of putting Dylan's music in both a historical and a musical context. You come away with a renewed sense of music being an intensely personal art that's meant to hit you where you live, whether it be folk music or (gasp! :o) rock (or anything else, for that matter). Such a contrast with today's hideously commercialized music scene.

[ailsagirl]

21. I was amazed, and dismayed, by...

the way the anti-electric crowd treated Dylan. The first word that's hurled out from the audience, before he even makes it to the mike, is "JUDAS!!"

Dylan didn't play to please anyone but himself, but all that invective had to be torturous.

[Raksha]

23. Absolutely incredible...

But I just discovered I didn't get the first half taped! Does anyone know when/if PBS is going to repeat it?