S1 Ep2: 'Desire'

Bob Dylan: Album By Album

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4.8 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we look at the weird and wonderful record 'Desire', possibly Bob's most interesting sounding album ever, it's a record full of stories featuring outlaws and exotic landscapes.

There's some brilliant collaborations here, playwright Jacques Levy brings some great ideas, while Scarlet Rivera gives us a unique violin sound throughout.

There's some interesting interviews with both of them, detailing working on the album

Jacques Levy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_NRbODKtM

Scarlet Rivera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24qy7J5_W0&t=196s

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Ben Barrow and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that takes
0:05.7	an in-death look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record. This is episode two,
0:10.9	and this is all about 1976's Desire.
0:18.4	Recorded in the middle of Dylan's second purple patch and co-written with playwright Jacques Levy,
0:23.5	this is perhaps one of Bob's most interesting sounding records.
0:27.1	There's a wide range of sonic landscapes from Mexican to pop to classic rock,
0:31.4	not to mention the heavy Eastern European sound courtesy of violin player Scarlett Rivera,
0:36.4	who features on almost all of the tracks,
0:38.6	most notably Hurricane, which would become one of Bob's most well-known singles and a stunning
0:43.3	album opener.
0:44.0	Pistol shots ring out in a bar room night, enter Betty Valentine from the upper hall.
0:51.9	She sees a bartender and a fool of blood
0:54.9	cries out
0:56.1	my god
0:57.0	dead killed them all
0:58.6	Rivera's violin
0:59.8	it's so
1:01.3	prominent
1:01.8	it almost acts as
1:02.6	a second lead
1:03.5	vocal
1:03.9	shadowing Dylan's
	...

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