Bob Dylan, Desire, and The Rolling Thunder Revue｜Vinyl Monday

[@abigaildevoe]

welcome everyone to season 4!! what's your favorite dylan tune? comment below!

[@ItzRobbie05]

Mama You Been On My Mind!

[@WillieSimpson777]

Off Desire? Sara for sure...gorgeous hidden gem...in general? Holy shit...umm...boring answer incoming but maybe Mr. Tambourine Man, just the greatest yearning dream song ever...

[@landhorses]

Too many to name a single favorite. I do love “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” - it’s funny and clever even the 1000th time you hear it. “A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall” for serious topical songs just as important today.

[@nvm9040]

Baby, Stop Crying from street legal

[@davidellis5141]

Lay Lady Lay

[@josemaria8177]

Could not think of a better way to start season 4. We all need more Bob Dylan in our lives

[@Dead_Cents]

I’m praying for a White Light/White Heat review this season

[@rain_stuff]

@@Dead_Cents same!

[@monteiroart]

Same

[@ScarlettFire341]

I was fortunate to see the Revue in Fall 75 at Lowell Tech Maskachusetts (now Lowell Univ). We had no idea what to expect and WE ALL we very impressed with the entire production. The Scarlet violin was totally unexpected and stole the show and our hearts ! Dylan singing CLEAR was the best I have ever heard from him and I've seen him like a dozen times. The Desire LP was played A LOT during the 70's at my college. I clearly remember us all being outside the venue after the show saying "WOW what was that" - music like we really never heard compared to Ten Years After & Grand Funk Railroad and all that ...

[@EmmanuelPehau]

French citizen here. Desire is well remembered around our parts. Unsurprisingly it is my favorite Dylan album and was, for a time in my late twenties, my favorite album, period. "Sara" stil moves me like few songs do, and inspired the name of my daughter. I did enjoy Renaldo and Clara, and thanks to the internets, i can now watch my favorite moment, Joan Baez taking him off guard in an improvised dialogue about their relationship, whenever i feel like it.

[@AMolePerson]

I love Desire, but man, I think I love The Rolling Thunder Revue Bootleg album even more-that band is on fire! (Dig the typeface upgrade too btw)

[@frugalseverin2282]

People say the 2 Rolling Thunder Revue tour was sub-par but I love the album that came from it, "Hard Rain" is my #1 favorite live album of all time. That version of 'Idiot Wind' is devastating.

[@jeffbrown-hill7739]

It is good but was not recorded very well, based on my recollection. I will have to revisit it.

[@msmilie]

That version is great. I also love the version of 'Shelter from the Storm'.

[@JunkyardFox]

As aDylan fanatic, Desire is easily one my top 3 albums of all time. Dylan is at his most cinematic and exotic, at his most playful, yet you can feel they burden of his impending divorce approaching, never far from his thoughts. theres stories of unrequited love, bewitching women, grave robbing. it may not be his most profound storytelling, but my god is it a blockbuster adventure when you put this record on. i can easily see this album turned into a Netflix anthology of short stories. One More Cup Of Coffee, Romance in Durango, Sara, so exotic, brilliant and haunting.

[@jeffbrown-hill7739]

100% agree. Desire has always been up in my top 3 Dylan albums.

[@WhiteCamry]

"Not even the narrator knows what to make of this situationship." Sums up Dylan most aptly.👏👏👏👏

[@kellykey5]

I was the Purchasing Manager for the merch company that Dylan used from 2008 till 2017. One of the most popular tees we sold was the Rolling Thunder tee with a photo of Rolling Thunder Mode Bob on the front. Dylan's tour manager was very particular when it came to the color and types of shirts we could order for his items. The color of the tee was "Paprika." I cleaned out every tee warehouse in the nation of the "paprika tees."

[@abigaildevoe]

hahaha sounds about dylan!

[@constantinestavrakov4034]

KING CRIMSON JOINED THE CHAT!

[@progrockdude2691]

I wasn't sure if it was gonna be next week or the week after because WOOHOOOOO DIFFERENT RELEASE DATES BABY!!!! (more sources cite that it's on October 6 as opposed to October 1 ftr) Either way I am looking forward to it!

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

YUSSS!!! 🙌🏽

[@EmmanuelPehau]

"Your daddy, he's an outlaw and a wanderer by trade" (Singing those lyrics randomly like i'm possesed is the spice of my life.)

[@jayhawkjd8565]

One more cup of coffee for I go .... to the valley below!

[@joeodonnell921]

I actually have so many odd coincidental things with Dylan, when my wife was pregnant nearly two years ago we went through names and I eventually suggested Dylan and she agreed, a shop near us than started selling a different Dylan record each month which helped my collection. We started telling people the name we had chosen and the next thing I know he's not only touring again but is playing near us so got tickets and enjoyed... Than for my birthday my wife got me Bob Dylan brand whiskey and swears she actually bought me them way back before I suggested the name. Now Iv just recently binged through your channel to finally start afresh your new season.... And it's the man again 😮

[@fallandbounce]

Nice in-depth overview. I usually like to serialize longer videos, but the enthusiasm made the hour move quickly. With the exception of Joey, I love this album. It's a great follow up to Blood on the Tracks.

[@PeterByker]

I watch each Vinyl Mondays episode twice --- once to fill my heart, and then once to fill my brain, Thanks, @Abigail Devoe and Welcome Back!!! ❤

[@sage-qz5md]

This is the first Dylan album I've ever heard and my favorite , and also I love your channel! you talk about all my fav albums!! You should really review something/anything by Todd Rundgren

[@WPA33SC]

Desire was always in my top ten Dylan albums, maybe top five. Was good to hear about all the background, but didn't really need it to enjoy this album. Since you mentioned Patti Smith I would like for you to put Horses on the list for a future show. Was great for it's time.

[@stansnotmyname]

Really liked your take on this album, Abby. You inspired me to pull it off my shelf for the first time in a while. Great start to Season 4!

[@BlueSky...]

Joni Mitchell's Coyote kicks ass, especially that performance on film.

[@daviddryden8088]

She starts a new season looking so very cute.

[@richardbaker2613]

You’re awesome! Thanks for bringing this one back to me. It was never my favorite, but with your review I’m really excited to hear it again and reevaluate. Love your show!

[@DocBouvette]

My fave Bob Dylan album and you covered it beautifully, Abby. I learned a lot! 😊

[@lewismasonmusic]

Oh my god! Huge Dylan fan here! Singer/songwriter myself. Started playing the open mic scene here in th village and I met Erik Frandsen here! He’s a good friend of mine! He helped Oscar Isaac learn folk songs for Inside Llewyn Davis. FANTASTIC guitar player!!! I had to rewind it when I heard you mention him.

[@paulduggan5323]

Brilliant. One of my favourite albums by his royal Bobness and still an education despite living with this album for 48 years. A story as adventurous as those of the characters within and told as only you can with such inimitable aplomb. Season 4? Bring it on Red

[@martinarthur2597]

This is one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of the downright craziness and pure chance from which great music is born. Imagine being Bob Dylan! there’s an unwritten song right there. Love this album since it appeared.

[@kurtramos9190]

Omg I can't wait to share this with my Dylan loving latest muse after their hardcore punk rock show tonight!! I've watched at least 10 of your videos in just the last week since subscribing

[@briangonigal3974]

My gateway to Dylan was the Biograph career retrospective box set, I absolutely inhaled that collection for like a solid year when it came out in the 80’s. It had a lot of Desire material, but mostly in the form of unreleased live versions from the Rolling Thunder tours. So when I finally got around to the original studio album years later I couldn’t help be a bit disappointed, the studio versions were just missing the passion & delirious energy of the live Biograph and Bootleg series Vol. 5 versions. (See you have a vinyl copy of Bootleg Vol. 5 btw, that’s another vinyl record I never even knew existed until your show going on my grail list that I have no chance of ever finding).

[@moonxliqht]

i'm a huge dylan fan and desire is my second favorite dylan album. i love everything about it, i love the rolling thunder revue, i love the mysticism. this review made me so happy, desire is so phenomenal and full of beautiful stories and songs.

[@reedcoles1215]

Gotta have a Phil ochs album on here some day . Favorite ones either main title from Billy the kid or one more cup of coffee. Really enjoy don’t look back and rolling thunder docs. Big Bob and Phil fan as you can see

[@skiziskin]

Isis is fire.. The smokin' version from the Fort Collins show used to be on youtube but it seems to be long gone now. I was at that Hartford CT show when Joni sang Coyote and an acapella song that I'm pretty sure she didn't write. I was and still am a huge Joni Mitchell fan and I wished she would have done more. It was a great concert. I rode to that show from Putney, Vermont with my friend and a dude she was seeing at that time in his beat-to-hell Ford Galaxy at 110 mph. It was the fastest I've ever gone in an automobile and I truly thought we were all going to die and never make it to the show. I didn't really like him, mainly because of his reckless driving but also I thought he was taking advantage of my friend while she was on the rebound from losing a very dear friend of both of ours who she was with before him and who tragically died in a boating accident, shattering both of our hearts. Wally was a painter and he painted a mural on the back of my wardrobe of a purple passion plant with elfin figures climbing and swinging from its branches while doing various other things like playing a guitar, reading, sleeping, kissing, and painting. I took it with me when I dropped out of college and stored it in my parents' basement until I could have a place big enough to display it. But when my mother died, my dad asked someone to clear out the basement so he could sell the house and I never knew what happened to it. Back to the show, I got HAF and drifted completely into the Rolling Thunder world. I remember Lawrence Ferlinghetti reciting a poem but I can find no reference to that online. We stopped at a bar in Brattleboro on our way back to Putney, which made the last nine miles home even more terrifying. The whole trip was a lot like one of Dylan's songs around that time. I think Bob does those Arabic sounding descending runs in One More Cup of Coffee quite well. I couldn't begin to do that because I am a truly bad singer but I do try to sing it around the campfire. Emmy is an angel. In following years I would see her drop into Peggy's Hi-Lo, a roadhouse outside of Boulder whenever she was in town to sing GP songs with a local band called Dusty Drapes and the Dusters. Ahh... sweet nostalgia. It's nice.

[@grahamhobbs3501]

Along with Nashville Skyline, Desire was, and probably remains, Bob's most popular work among people who aren't Dylan fans - it did very well when it came out.

[@christophermiller7051]

Absolute banger to start with. Here's to more Bob in the future. Desire is well inside my top ten Dylan albums despite 'Joey'. I've a bit of soft spot for 'Black Diamond Bay' but my favourite song on desire has got to be 'isis' especially the really rocky live versions to be found on the bootleg series. Keep up the excellent work.

[@gokhanaya]

I know it's a bit absurd to mention another video but girl.. that Leyla video was out of this world! I cannot imagine for the life of me the effort you put into that one.. kudos and much love from Istanbul!..

[@angusgillett1631]

So weird to tune in for you talking about Desire and suddenly have a pic of the Providence Performing Arts Center, which I walk by nearly every day!

[@sonofkiki6162]

🤣Was not expecting that intro! I'm excited for this season; episode one is just fantastic, that is really what I think.

[@styles8007]

Desire is my all-time favorite Bob Dylan. Favorite tracks Joey, One More Cup of Coffee, Sara. Thanks for sharing this treasure piece of music. Cheers from Indiana 👍

[@jayhawkjd8565]

My first concert ever was the Rolling Thunder Review - Wichita '76. $8.00 GA. That summer we drove from Wichita to LA and back on family vacation. 2 8-tracks, one was MGM's "That's Entertainment!" and one Dad let me pick, "Desire". My mom (RIP) and my siblings know it by heart. Mom loved "Isis" and "Black Diamond Bay" after it was said and done! The family will still arbitrarily quote from the album 48 years later 😊

[@saulsnitkin1622]

Back in September 13 1976 NBC aired Bob Dylan Special Hard Rain . It was a compilation of performances from next to last stop of Rolling Thunder Tour. Some clips have been posted to You Tube. Check it out and enjoy

[@fractuss]

I saw the Revue is New Orleans in 76. It was one of the high points of my concert going experience, and I have attended many. I remember Bob walking out alone and doing "Tambourine Man". Could have heard a pin drop as they say.

[@scottmackenzie6699]

Your comedic timing and historical reenactments are incredibly good. I am not a big fan of Dylan, but I’m watching the entire show.

[@TheVinylLoungeMtl]

Love the vibes Abi, deep deep deep 🎶✌🏼😊

[@eggman7527]

Love watching this channel stoned! The times they are derangin'!

[@stephensorensen4477]

Your review on Hurricane is exemplary!

[@TheAgeOfAnalog]

Greetings from Tulsa, home of the Bob Dylan center! Bob’s performance of Isis, featured on the Rolling Thunder Review movie might be my favorite Dylan performance ever captured on film.

[@WillieSimpson777]

I love loading up the album on youtube and playing it softly behind your videos in a different tab...a way to stick it to the youtube copywrite anti-fun police.

[@abigaildevoe]

that's the spirit 😎

[@nvm9040]

That’s smart right there 😂

[@smaz9]

​@@abigaildevoe Big brain move 🧠

[@davedem4107]

I love the live album that came from the Rolling Thunder revue. Hard Rain, It has awesome versions of idiot wind, shelter from the storm, oh sister and SIMWTMBA LOL

[@PhilipRawbon-rk8uv]

That was awesome Abby!..bought the album when it was released ..an was at the Rolling Thunder Review in Toronto..loved growing up in the early 70s..🙋

[@joaoazevedo1054]

First time I heard Red was during an 80s KC concert and it fit perfectly in the playlist- kept looking for that song in Discipline 😂

[@addisonstandley8204]

Thank you for talking about my personal favorite Dylan album... I've enjoyed a lot of his other albums quite a bit, but this was the first one that truly stunned me.

[@mike-qk1vf]

welcome back abby. i love bob dylan desire. great album mike from canada

[@jriffblue]

Love the episode. I also love your Always Sunny references

[@iandurn1725]

Another great video! Dylan is my favorite artist for a reason, and this is definitely his most underrated album. Speaking of albums from the 70s, ive always wondered what you feel about the Carpenters, especially their non political stance in contrast to their contemporaries. They were the biggest American act back in the 70s, but nobody talks about them these days!

[@theycallhimwoods]

On record Dylan probably has not been as collaborative as he had been on Desire, however, in the 80s Dylan's collaborative side was in full swing - most notably on his tours with the Heartbrakers and Grateful Dead (Robert Hunter co-wrote "Silvio" ) but also with his drunken Live Aid performance with Keif & Woody or even his work as Lucky Wilbury.

[@LuckIsImpossible]

i'm glad the wrench made it in

[@jeffbrown-hill7739]

42:27 I recently realized that the lines "the snow was outrageous, we chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn" are an obvious double entendre in reference to "winter sports".

[@doktoruzo]

Dylan's high watermark. One of my all time top favourite LP's.

[@michaelshiflett4835]

Well done!! You just seem to get better every time! 😊

[@doktoruzo]

nooo...Joey is the highlight, it's a song writing masterclass. Fabulous song and lyrics.

[@MacgyverMike1]

Great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up cant wait for next weeks episode

[@gusionsomething]

She finally uploaded a new vinyl monday

[@5118eman]

Happy 4th season Abby can't wait to see more.🤩

[@johnhextall1136]

Great review Abby! I like Desire even more than Blood on the Tracks. It was the first of his albums I got and remains my favourite, mostly because of Scarlett and Emmylou. And Hurricane rages magnificently, the fiddle playing filled with righteous indignation. Oh Sister, in my opinion, is a retelling of the Isis and Osiris story and continues the mystical Ancient Egyptian theme of the album.

[@JamesHopkins-on3mv]

Lucky enough to see the Review in New Haven. Best family get together ever. Favorite Ballad Of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.

[@thecaveofthedead]

I bought an _almost_ unlistenably scratched copy of this record in 1994 or so and listened to it enough for it to be one of my favourite Dylan records. You're spot on. Joey is just a bummer and should have been left off. The Hurricane is great but I don't ever really want to put it on. But Isis, Romance In Durango, Sara, One More Cup Of Coffee, and Oh Sister are just phenomenal.

[@edgarcardiel157]

Oh god oh jeez oh man guys its happening!!! My dream episode!!!!

[@pwcincy]

Always appreciate a Mean Girls call out

[@chrismcgovern1647]

Somebody wanted to make fetch happen?

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

That's so fetch.

[@davidellis5141]

I saw Rob Stoner & Howie Wyeth with Chris Spedding as the band for Rockabilly legend Robert Gordon on his Rockabilly Boogie Tour.

[@buck13horn]

Informative, entertaining and captivating as usual. A few friendly corrections: Emy Lou’s band with Gram Parsons was not Grievous Angels (the name of his final solo album) but Fallen Angels; Jacques Levy wasn’t Dylan’s only cowriter: he cowrote Together Through Like with Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.

[@renesrelics]

Dylans Desire has been my favorite album for years

[@smaz9]

It's a very bittersweet day, as it's my friend's last day at the social club I go to. I'm very nervous and sad, but watching the return of Vinyl Monday has really brightened my day, thank you Abby ❤ Also, was that King Crimson's Red at the end???

[@alanclayton9277]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE NEXT ALBUM CHOICE. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT! now i know i'm here for a reason, oh yeah desire. I'm in. not a concept album but the notion of the quest never seems far away. some kind of a journey of the self too, seeing himself differently ( the introspective subject while on a journey: very joseph conrad?). the pushing of his voice on sara has emotional, musical, force and i don't often think that about dylan. female voices and fiddles adding difference. this could be my third favourite, after freewheelin' and my top bob album nashville skyline. i'm pushing my luck saying this for a second time on a VM page. I CAN NOT BELIEVE NEXT WEEKS....

[@markzutkoff1800]

Congratulations on Season 4! "Hope you survive the experience!" (to quote the X-Men narrator from a comic many years ago - and along those lines, you even added a tiny post-credits scene!) Love the new title font. Enjoyable video as usual. While I'm a pretty big Dylan fan, I've never taken the deep dive into "Desire" because a lot of people tend to discount the album. But after watching your review, I may have to go for it. It does make me want to hear your take on Dylan's religious period. It might be a good topic for one of your mega-episodes, covering "Slow Train Coming", "Saved", and "Shot Of Love" (and maybe even the Bootleg Series live compilation "Trouble No More"). And you've introduced me to the terms "singing in cursive" and "situation-ship". I suspect the latter may be your own, but the former does have a history. Thanks!

[@Fastboiiii69]

What a funny coincidence, my only Japanese pressing LP is also Desire!

[@timnil]

Thank you, this was great.

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

This was my first "favorite Dylan record", starting way back in the late 70s, because my mom had the record and played it a lot. Yes, it had the 1975 date on it! This is where I began my Dylan journey. I loved Emmylou's voice mixing with Bob's (I now have almost all her records), and I like the general sound Bob's band had on the record. And the songs all stuck in my head - and still do all the time. I'm always thinking about Cup of Coffee or Mozambique as I'm just rolling through daily life. It's a lovely album. Thanks so much for featuring it.

[@marcyfan-tz4wj]

i got it at "K-mart" (!!!) around the same time. i'm enjoying the season premiere but curious if abby's copy of the record doesn't include "joey" (???) i guess laying out the facts of rubin's case and the tour dylan can no longer recall now is enough but geez!

[@clynaack]

Loving the new logo, if I do say so myself 😉😉

[@troubadour723]

I grew up listening to this album. My parents were big Dylan fans. Hearing "This is the story of the Hurricane" immediately reminds me of my toy collection. After 19 years, Reuben Carter was finally set free. Yay, the system . . works?

[@holgerpetersen9918]

"Tangled Up in Blue"!

[@31carrier]

110 likes 518 views posted 1 hour ago Thanks Abby what a good review I learned so much I saw Bob Dylan in the Boston Garden around 73 or 74 he played with the Band it is still a moment i wont forget

[@dougcapehart]

I love Black Diamond Bay. It's a Greek tragedy with a killer melody.

[@MrDaveNorton]

My first and favourite Dylan album. Rolling Thunder Review is great too

[@michaelshiflett4835]

Wow, you’re going to do Red!!

[@jeffbrown-hill7739]

Totally agree regarding "Joey". Overlong and weak in comparison to the rest of "Desire". "Isis" is one of my all-time favorite Dylan tracks. It's just so exuberant and rambling in a way that only Bob and this particular group of musicians could pull off.

[@guillermogarcia3327]

so well explained 👏

[@jamesnock5572]

Great to see dylan back on the channel. Really enjoyed your review of desire. Now i'm off to try and tap in to my devine feminine energy! I wonder if this glass of wine will help🙌♎️

[@chrisdelisle3954]

Oh, the album is remembered quite well outside of "Hurricane!" For as long as I've known of it, it's always been the other album from the 70's that is essential...possibly the last essential album of his until his resurgence in 1997. Totally agree with "Joey" being the dud of the record. The record would have been better...and still 45 minutes long...without it. Move "Oh Sister" from the end of side 1 to the beginning of side 2.

[@marknovak6498]

Black diamond bay is the work I loved from this album. Bought it close after the release date.

[@markanthony1425]

I like the Little Debbie look.

[@tdaggett]

I always thought the line in Sarah was” so easy to look at, so hard to describe”

[@blackroses6315]

LETS GOOO

[@jaydosinsaneos]

So good

[@peterburlin8198]

Great stuff, will watch more of this channel! I rate Desire as one the the best Dylan albums, probably top five, and I also agree that Joey is a bit of a dud, though I still kind of like it, its very romantic innit ?

[@konowd]

Love Emmylou Harris, such a beautiful voice

[@wyldebill4178]

Who else wishes they could spend an afternoon with Abby next to the turntable?

[@clydekimsey7503]

It's my fifth best album by him. I saw the rolling thunder revue in san Antonio.

[@nvm9040]

Two long weeks without a Vinyl Monday until now where we get a near hour Bob Dylan episode and ofc Eric is back 😭 The 1970s was a mixed bag for his discography but Blood on the Tracks and Desire is good set of back to back albums with arguably Desire being the last great album for a bit

[@samuelsmoak2541]

Welcome back Abby, I’m excited to see where Season 4 goes.

[@iMystic418]

Excellent video. I'm looking forward to season 4! I haven't paid Dylan much attention in a minute. Thank you for the inspiration. I noticed you flashed King Crimson "Red" at the end...👀 ✌️🫶🦐

[@LANCSKID]

Genius is rare. Dylan’s genius is even rarer.

[@danielschaeffer1294]

That’s the most ambiguous compliment I ever read. It could easily be understood as “Dylan comes out with a great record occasionally, but this time he blew it.”

[@LANCSKID]

@@danielschaeffer1294 OK, I’ll rephrase it for you: The vast majority of Dylan’s work possesses a rare kind of poetic genius. ‘Desire’ is no exception.

[@rapson672]

Getting the back story & history on the albums we love by a beautiful young lady in cool clothes she makes herself. what's not to love?