50 Years Later: Bob Dylan Goes Exotic & Dramatic With 'Desire' - Glide Magazine

50 Years Later: Bob Dylan Goes Exotic & Dramatic With 'Desire' - Glide Magazine

It didn’t take six decades to discern how much Bob Dylan’s Desire benefited from its release almost immediately in the wake of the previous autumn’s Rolling Thunder tour. The public fanfare and commercial success accorded the title belied the rough-hewn nature of the nine tracks, the borderline sloppy tenor of which might well have been superseded by the substitution of concert takes from the aforementioned itinerant caravan featuring Joan Baez,…