Dylan’s poetic letter
Bob Dylan’s legendary 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited is still considered one of the best albums in rock history. The opening song “Like A Rolling Stone” is a comet and the impact shakes the entire rock world. When Bruce Springsteen is asked if he feels he owes Dylan anything, The Boss replies: “When I was sixteen and I had Highway 61 on my little mono record player in my room at night, I’d listen to it a thousand times. It’s one of those debts that you can never repay.”
And the album of which, very unusual, Dylan says, “I could buy it myself.”
The final track is the only acoustic track on the record, the long, melancholic, poetic explosion “Desolation Row”, Dylan’s kaleidoscopic impression of “what goes on around here”, the mysterious masterpiece that is a first building block of his later Nobel Prize. “Like Desolation Row… there’s no logical way that you can arrive at lyrics like that. I don’t know how it was done,” Dylan muses more than twenty years later, in 1987.
In Desolation Row. Bob Dylan’s poetic letter from 1965, the seventh Dylan book by Dylan scholar Jochen Markhorst, the reader is taken through the history, background and impact of the song, the ten verses, the recording sessions and the aftermath. Coming close to answering the question how it was done.
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