There are many categories of Bob Dylan songs: historical biographies and spiritual devotionals, oddball shaggy-dog stories, love songs and cranky breakup numbers. All of these are great, but my absolute favorite is the travelogue: where our weirdo champion lights out for the road, seeking deliverance, and finds only mayhem, strange fraudulence, and chaos everywhere he sets his suitcase down. At times there seems like no end to the places Dylan can fuck up. Mississippi? Mozambique? Stuck inside of Mobile? The streets of Rome? It gets inexplicable, and that’s why I love it.
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