Bob Dylan's spring tour plans emerge

Folk-rock icon Bob Dylan has begun rolling out dates for a spring roadtrip, some of which will also feature country legend Merle Haggard.

So far, Dylan has unveiled a small batch of early April dates, all of which are set in the West. The run is billed as "Bob Dylan and His Band" from April 1-5, and "The Bob Dylan Show featuring Bob Dylan and His Band with Merle Haggard and the Strangers" from April 7-May 11, according to Columbia Records.

Tickets for all of the currently confirmed dates will hit the box office this weekend. Details are shown in the itinerary below.

A ticket presale is already underway at Dylan's official website. More information is available at the site.

Last August, Columbia issued the seventh edition of its Bob Dylan "Bootleg Series." Dubbed "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack," the album was the audio companion to filmmaker Martin Scorsese's documentary about the folk-rock legend, which aired last September on PBS. The program was released on DVD that same month.

The film is the first feature-length biography ever produced on Dylan, who serves as its narrator. In addition to archival footage and photography, it features exclusive interviews with Joan Baez, photographer John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Glover, Al Kooper, Bruce Langhorne, Paul Nelson, Suze Rotolo, Pete Seeger and Dave Van Ronk, among others.

"No Direction Home: The Soundtrack" is a two-disc, chronologically sequenced collection that features 28 Dylan tracks, all of which were recorded between 1959 and 1966, and 26 of which were previously unreleased.

Haggard's most recent release is last September's "Chicago Wind." The 11-track set features seven new songs that Haggard penned himself.