Maggie's Farm 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home" and released on its accompanying album, "". Media reviews of the soundtrack were overwhelmingly positive towards the "Maggie's Farm" performance, yielding such descriptions as "blistering" and "remarkably tight, and downright spine-tingling. You can sense Dylan and the band feeding off their collective nervous energy." The Newport performance was also included in Murray Lerner's film "The Other Side of the Mirror". "Maggie's Farm," like many Dylan songs, has been widely covered. One of the first versions was by Solomon Burke, "one of the first black singers to record a Bob Dylan song", who released
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Dylan's subsequent recognition led to his being named as "Spokesman of a Generation", a label Dylan repudiated. "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" reached number 22 in the US (eventually going platinum), and became a number-one album in the UK in 1964. In 2003, the album was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2002, "Freewheelin"' was one of the first 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Neither critics nor the public took much notice of Dylan's self-titled debut album, "Bob Dylan",