The two-CD chronologically sequenced package contains 28 Bob Dylan tracks - 26 of them previously unreleased - comprised of rare private recordings, live concert, television and festival recordings, and 12 alternate takes of songs from his Columbia LP recording sessions in New York and Nashville during this period. The songs range in time from 1959 (a high school recording of "When I Got Troubles," most likely the first original song he ever recorded), to 1966 (alternate takes of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from the "Blonde on Blonde" album recording sessions, as well as "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like A Rolling Stone" from the legendary 1966 UK tour).

Many of the songs or tracks are introduced in the film for the first time in history, or are representative of times and places covered in the film, while others are alternate takes of classic tracks that were unearthed during the making of the film. For example, the version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" performed in 1961, at the intimate Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City, was never known to have existed on any tape until now.

On the other hand, the "No Direction Home" film version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is taken from the Newport Folk Festival, July 1964; while the CD version presents - for the first time - the first complete take of the song with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, recorded at Columbia Studios the month before. The track is then followed on the CD by "Chimes of Freedom" from Newport '64.

Archivists and researchers reviewed more than 400 hours of recordings by Bob Dylan in the preparation of "No Direction Home." The two CDs will be packaged with a 60-page color book housed in a slipcase. The book will include separate liner notes written by Andrew Loog Oldham, and Al Kooper who sheds light on the "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" recording sessions in New York and Nashville (for which he played organ and served as musical director). An authoritative track-by-track delineation is also included.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. When I Got Troubles (Album Version)
2. Rambler, Gambler (Album Version)
3. This Land Is Your Land (Live Version)
4. Song To Woody (Album Version)
5. Dink's Song (Album Version)
6. I Was Young When I Left Home (Album Version)
7. Sally Gal (Alternate Take)
8. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Demo)
9. Man Of Constant Sorrow (Live Version)
10. Blowin' In The Wind (Live Version)
11. Masters Of War (Live Version)
12. A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall (Live Version)
13. When The Ship Comes In (Live Version)
14. Mr. Tambourine Man (Alternate Take)
15. Chimes Of Freedom (Live Version)
16. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Alternate Take)

Disc 2:

1. She Belongs To Me (Alternate Take)
2. Maggie's Farm (Live Version)
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Alternate Take)
4. Tombstone Blues (Alternate Take)
5. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Alternate Take)
6. Desolation Row (Alternate Take)
7. Highway 61 Revisited (Alternate Take)
8. Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat (Alternate Take)
9. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Alternate Take)
10. Visions Of Johanna (Alternate Take)
11. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Live Version)
12. Like A Rolling Stone (Live Version)