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"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).
"Joey" is an epic story-song from Bob Dylan's 1975 album Desire.It was written by Dylan and Jacques Levy, who collaborated with Dylan on most of the songs on the album.Like another long song on the album, "Hurricane", "Joey" is biographical.
[8] Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin considers the song to be a "ditty dredged up from the bottom of the barrel," "ghastly" and "the weakest song on Desire." [ 2 ] [ 9 ] "Mozambique" was also released as a single as a follow-up to the Top 40 hit " Hurricane " and it reached #54 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 10 ]
"The Times They Are a-Changin '" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released as the title track of his 1964 album of the same name. Dylan wrote the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the time, influenced by Irish and Scottish ballads.
The Sydney Morning Herald named "I Contain Multitudes" one of the "Top five Bob Dylan songs" in a 2021 article, calling it a "paean to unassailable self-knowledge [that] is sung like a man at peace with every detail". [31] Spectrum Culture included the song on a list of "Bob Dylan's 20 Best Songs of the '10s and Beyond". [32]
The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. Dylan allegedly wrote it on Thanksgiving Day in 1965, though some biographers doubt this, concluding that he most likely improvised the lyrics in the studio. Dylan recorded the song at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee in March 1966. The song has been criticized for sexism or ...
Jimmy Buffett in a screenshot from his 2023 video for “Mozambique,” his cover of the 1976 Bob Dylan tune. “Mozambique” is featured on the late singer’s “Equal Strain on all Parts ...
"Jokerman" is a song by Bob Dylan that appeared as the opening track of his 1983 album Infidels. [3] [4] Recorded on April 14, 1983, [5] it was released as a single on June 1, 1984, featuring a live version of "Isis" from the film Renaldo and Clara as its B-side.