Bob Dylan
Some Kind of Joke: Desolation Row – 1965-2018
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a Bennyboy production
The first and last (so far!) recorded live versions of Bob performing ‘Desolation Row’, and one from every year in between – including one with the Grateful Dead (for completion sake, sorry about that, arf, arf)
All tracks selected and remastered, with artwork (Francis Bacon, ‘Figures in a Street’ & Bob’s hand-written song lyrics ) by Bennyboy, February 2023
- Desolation Row (New York 28th Aug 1965)
- Desolation Row (Leicester 15th May 1966)
- Desolation Row (St. Louis 4th Feb 1974)
- Desolation Row (Rome 21st June 1984)
- Desolation Row (with the Grateful Dead)(Washington 7th July 1986)
- Desolation Row (Brussels 8th Oct 1987)
- Desolation Row (Hamburg 3rd July 1990)
- Desolation Row (London 8th Feb 1991)
- Desolation Row (San Francisco 4th May 1992)
- Desolation Row (Marseille 29th June 1993)
- Desolation Row (New York 18th Nov 1994)
- Desolation Row (Bethlehem 13th Dec 1995)
- Desolation Row (Orono 23rd April 1996)
- Desolation Row & dedication to Allen Ginsberg (Moncton 5th April 1997)
- Desolation Row (Birmingham 24th June 1998)
- Desolation Row (Durham 17th Nov 1999)
- Desolation Row (London 6th Oct 2000)
- Desolation Row (San Jose 12th Oct 2001)
- Desolation Row (Park City 30th Aug 2002)
- Desolation Row (Berlin 20th Oct 2003)
- Desolation Row (Madrid 14th July 2004)
- Desolation Row (Verona 20th April 2005)
- Desolation Row (Sioux Falls 8th Sept 2006)
- Desolation Row (Newcastle 12th April 2007)
- Desolation Row (Lisbon 11th July 2008)
- Desolation Row (Dublin 6th May 2009)
- Desolation Row (Tokyo 24th March 2010)
- Desolation Row (London 21st Nov 2011)
- Desolation Row (Montreal 16th Nov 2012)
- Desolation Row (Denver 31st July 2013)
- Desolation Row (Gothenburg 15th July 2014)
- Desolation Row (Lorrach 16th July 2015)
- Desolation Row (Indio 14th Oct 2016)
- Desolation Row (Nottingham 5th May 2017)
- Desolation Row (Aukland 26th Aug 2018)
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