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Desperado: The Soundtrack

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Ballad of a Thin Man

Dylan released live recordings of the song on Before the Flood (1974), Bob Dylan at Budokan (1979), Real Live (1984), Hard to Handle (video, 1986), Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998) and on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (2005).

Ben Foord

After retiring from boxing, Ben Foord joined the army, and while at home on leave he was playing a practical joke by sneaking up on his wife Phyllis with a pistol and pretending to be a desperado, Foord then attempted Gunspinning in the American frontier style and accidentally shot himself in the face, killing himself.

Eve of Destiny

Later, in 1998, the song "Desperado" was released in the Black Bible compilation from US label Cleopatra Records.

Girls Aloud: Home Truths

The programme focuses on the recording of "Models" and "On My Way to Satisfaction".

Jon Roberts

In 2011, Garcia-Roberts interviewed Roberts' American Desperado co-author Evan Wright for a Miami New Times article (coincidentally dated one month before Roberts' death).

Live at Carnegie Hall 1963

Four other songs from this night's show (and not present here) have been released on previous Bob Dylan compilations: "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" and "Who Killed Davey Moore?" were originally released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, while "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "When the Ship Comes In" were released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack.

No direction home

The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack, a 2005 rarities compilation album that accompanies the film

The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

Dylan's old girlfriend Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told Rolling Stone Magazine that she was very pleased with the project's results.

Among those interviewed were poet Allen Ginsberg and folk musician Dave Van Ronk, both of whom died before the film was ever completed.


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