Title: "I WAS HOPING THAT IT WASN'T CONTAGIOUS!"
Product review: This is the Dylan album I come back to again and again. It would be a 5 star album for me, were it not for "HURRICANE". It's the kind of social injustice song Dylan wrote many of in the sixties. It's just not up to those standards. True story or not, the song just hasn't aged well for me. That aside, DESIRE is a beauty! Some of the most elegant melodies & his phrasing so evocative. "Isis" is one of the sexiest cowboy heist songs I've ever heard. "One More Cup of Coffee" is haunting as all get out. No need to talk about the lyrics. The man is a master. "Sara" is heartwrenching. Where "Hurricane" falters, "Joey" suceeds on every level. The musicians play as if they were plucked out of another time, another place. The stories sound well-traveled. A century between them & Dylan. It's just gorgeous. It would be a heinous act to not mention Emmylou Harris here. Her backing vocals (as always) are the stuff that angels wings are made of.
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