Carter was released in 1985, after a judge overturned his conviction on appeal.Ī well-received follow-up to Blood on the Tracks, Desire reached #1 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for five weeks, becoming one of Dylan’s top-selling studio albums (currently certified double platinum), while reaching #3 in the UK. Most of the album was co-written by Jacques Levy, and is composed of lengthy story-songs, two of which quickly generated controversy: the over-11-minute long “Joey”, which is seen as glorifying the violent gangster “Crazy Joey” Gallo, and “Hurricane”, the opening track that tells a passionate account of the murder case against boxer Rubin Carter, whom the song asserts was framed. 5) many of the songs also featured backing vocals by Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley. It is one of Dylan’s most collaborative efforts, featuring the same caravan of musicians as the acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue tours the previous year (later documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. ~Paul Williams ( Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986 ) – From Wikipedia: Releasedĭesire is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in January 1976 by Columbia Records. The filmed footage of “isis” as seen in Renaldo & Clara is also riveting: what sticks in my mind are the images of Bobby Neuwirth flickering his tongue like a snake, and Dylan holding up his crossed wrist as though trying to ward off a vampire (“I picket up his body…”)
10 – 1975 (WTTW-TV Studio, Chicago for “The World of John Hammond”):Īnd “Isis”, on the Rolling Thunder tour, was (eachnight) Bob Dylan’s biggest risk and greatest triumph…. Let’s kick off with Dylan’s performance of Hurricane on Sept. ~Michael Gray ( The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia )ĭesire is considered by many Dylan fans to be among his best albums, It’s number 5 on my list – check out: Bob Dylan’s best albums Recorded in the summer lull before the first Rolling Thunder tour and released soon after it, the stand-out tracks are ‘Isis’, ‘Romance in Durango’ and ‘Black Diamond Bay’, but ‘Hurricane’, ‘One More Cup of Coffee’ and ‘Oh Sister’ are breathing down their necks. ~Paul Williams ( Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986 ) The lyrics of “Sara” and “Abandoned Love” (and, for that matter, of “Isis” and “Hurricane”) could not be more perfect, but overall the triumph of Desire is musical The result is a sound and a set of songs unlike anything Dylan or anyone else has ever done before….
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