Desire released: Jan 5, 1976 BUY

The follow-up album to Blood On The Tracks was released between the first leg of Dylan’s epic Rolling Thunder Tour in late 1975 and the second in the spring of 1976. Desire, his biggest hit to date, leads off with Dylan’s blazing narrative ballad “Hurricane,” which tells the story of boxer Ruben “Hurricane” Carter’s arrest, trial and imprisonment, a song full of anger, rage and sarcasm that many hailed as a return to his “protest” work of the previous decade. Several of the Desire tracks, including “Isis” and “Romance In Durango,” were co-written with playwright Jacques Levy, and have a quasi-surreal narrative spin to them. An album full of tumult, energy, and confusion, pain and fire and sudden transcendence, one of Dylan’s most interesting. Hurricane | listen | Isis | listen | Mozambique | listen | One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) | listen | Oh, Sister | listen | Joey | listen | Romance in Durango | listen | Black Diamond Bay | listen | Sara | listen |