Broken Hallelujah

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan On TV in the US tonight and tomorrow night - (PBS)

For the first time, The Bob Dylan Archives has made available rare treasures from its film, tape and stills collection, including footage from Murray Lerner's film Festival documenting performances at the 1963, 1964 and 1965 Newport Folk Festivals, previously unreleased outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker's famed 1967 documentary Don't Look Back, and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Maria Muldaur, and many others. In anticipation of the film, members of Dylan's worldwide community of fans also contributed rarities from their own collections.

With this rare footage from his archives and from fans, count me in.

Bob Dylan

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9/26/05-Edited To Add--DO NOT MISS
Being a Dylan fan enables me to hear one of his songs and recall the specific year it came out, what album it was on, the chords it's played in, and where you first sang it or learned to play it on the guitar.

Having watched, read, and listened to most anything Bob Dylan's ever done, Part 1 of this PBS special had much I'd never seen before. What immediately struck my husband and I first was the depth and candor in which Dylan spoke as if it were just him and you chatting one on one.

When word prophet Allen Ginsberg returned from India to hear Hard Rain for the first time, he wept. It was the time of passing the torch from one generation of poets and bohemians to the new era of songwriters and protest singers. In that context I remembered myself in teenage years discovering who I was, and seeking guidance from the poets that were prophets, and the singers who were worshipped.