Bob Dylan - Desolation Row

ISFP - 9w1 - sp/sx - 947 - Phlegmatic-Melancholic - ELVF - RCUAI - ESI

“Desolation Row” is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on August 4, 1965, and released as the closing track of Dylan's sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited. It has been noted for its length (11:21) and surreal lyrics in which Dylan weaves characters into a series of vignettes that suggest entropy and urban chaos. “Desolation Row” has been described as Dylan's most ambitious work up to that date. In the New Oxford Companion to Music, Gammond described “Desolation Row" as an example of Dylan's work that achieved a, "high level of poetical lyricism." Clinton Heylin notes that Dylan is writing a song as long as traditional folk ballads, such as “Tam Lin” and “Matty Groves”, and in that classic ballad metre, but without any linear narrative thread.