The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack is the fifth installment in the Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series" of rare and/or officially unissued recordings. It was released in 2005 in conjunction with the Martin Scorsese PBS television documentary on Dylan "No Direction Home", and was compiled with Scorsese's input. It features mostly previously unreleased material from Dylan's formative years to his rise as an international figure, spanning 1959 to his legendary 1966 world tour. "The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" fared well commercially, debuting
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the North Country", "Masters of War", "Talkin' World War III Blues", "Bob Dylan's Dream"). Scaduto writes that Dylan felt "crushed" by being compelled to submit to censorship, but he was in no position to argue. According to biographer Clinton Heylin, "There remains a common belief that [Dylan] was forced by Columbia to pull 'Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues' from the album "after" he walked out on "The Ed Sullivan Show"." However, the "revised" version of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" was released on May 27, 1963; this would have given Columbia Records only two weeks to recut the album, reprint the