The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack unclear how much, if any, influence "Chronicles" may have had on "No Direction Home". Though raw material was being gathered for the project, Rosen needed someone to edit and shape it into a quality picture, and celebrated filmmaker Martin Scorsese was approached to "direct" the documentary planned from the project. Scorsese eventually agreed and came aboard in 2001. In the meantime, Dylan's office gathered hundreds of hours of historical film footage dating from the time covered in "No Direction Home". These included a scratchy recording of Dylan's high school rock band, his 1965 screen test for Andy Warhol, and newly
Bob Dylan for Bob Dylan. No iron law of history demanded that a would-be Elvis from Hibbing, Minnesota, would swerve through the Greenwich Village folk revival to become the world's first and greatest rock 'n' roll beatnik bard and then—having achieved fame and adoration beyond reckoning—vanish into a folk tradition of his own making. When Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "The New York Times" commented: "In choosing a popular musician for the literary world's highest honor, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, dramatically redefined the boundaries of literature, setting off a debate about whether song lyrics have the