Desire<\/i> is arguably the best Sunday afternoon album ever released. It is also one Dylan\u2019s most commercially successful albums. It\u2019s hard to imagine that there was a time when a Bob Dylan album could spend more than a month occupying the number one slot on the Billboard album charts, but in 1976, Desire<\/i> spent five weeks at number one. <\/p>\n
The album, Dylan\u2019s seventeenth, was the follow-up to his critical and commercial hit Blood On The Tracks<\/i>, released in 1975. For Dylan fans, Desire<\/i> summed Dylan\u2019s ten-year-plus career in a fifty-minute album. His folksy delivery and heartfelt, intimate lyrics were on display in songs like \u201c Not everything was utterly familiar on Desire<\/i>, however. The album marked Dylan\u2019s first time recording the majority of a disc with a secondary songwriter, Jacques Levey, who helped bring a narrative string to Dylan\u2019s songwriting. The most appealing example of this is the breezy \u201c In addition to Levey, other contributors made this a standout Dylan collection. EmmyLou Harris lends her vocals to \u201cOh, Sister\u201d and the somber \u201cOne More Cup Of Coffee\u201d while Scarlet Rivera contributes some extraordinary violin work, making the eight minute \u201cHurricane\u201d seem more like a standard three-minute pop song. <\/p>\n Remnants from Blood On The Tracks<\/i> remain on Desire<\/i>. Dylan\u2019s disintegrating marriage to Sara, famously documented throughout the former release, reaches a pained epilogue on this disc in closing track \u201cSara.\u201d Without surprise, it\u2019s also Dylan\u2019s most personal song on an album full of character sketches. <\/p>\n Blood On The Tracks<\/i> and Desire<\/i> restored Dylan\u2019s relevance in the mid-70s. And in typical Dylan fashion, he went on to create a series of mediocre albums. However, as this disc shows, Dylan is never an artist who can be written off, even if it would take him another twenty years to create another masterpiece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5866],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-35786","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bob-dylan","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/35786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35786"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=35786"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=35786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}