Knocked Out Loaded released: July 14, 1986

It’s title borrowed from the old Louis Jordan tune “Junco Partner,” Knocked Out Loaded is another collection of odds and ends, yet it contains one masterpiece, the eleven-minute epic “Brownsville Girl,” written with playwright Sam Shepard, a shaggy-doggish yarn about romance in the West dovetailed with memories of watching Gregory Peck in the film The Gunfighter. The lyrics play with time, memory, people, and places, and the delivery is staggering. Starting almost conversationally, Dylan ratchets up the intensity verse by verse, like a good preacher, until he is throwing everything he has into every line by the end, before bringing it in for a good landing. You Wanna Ramble | listen | They Killed Him | listen | Driftin' Too Far from Shore | listen | Precious Memories | listen | Maybe Someday | listen | Brownsville Girl | listen | Got My Mind Made Up | listen | Under Your Spell | listen |