Bob Dylan Bootleg Series 7: No Direction Home

Watched the first half of that last night on VH1C (& loved ^^^ that scene), but couldn't commit to staying up until 2:30 for the 2nd half.

Most songwriters will never pen one song as good as I Was Young When I Left Home, which Dylan put to tape at age 20 and didn't even bother to include on an album.

It's all true.

His trajectory always amazes me. Any artist who could conjure those really affecting performances like "I Was Young When I Left Home" or his versions of "Barbara Allen" and "House Carpenter" or several dozen other songs from 1960/61/62 would have been content to simply perform in that guise for an entire career. And it would have been an important career. But that he went in a hundred different directions from those early years is simply astonishing to me. Such a brave artist.