Claude says:Dylan famously named this after the highway that runs from his birthplace in Duluth through the Delta, calling it "full of the same contradictions" as the country blues itself. Recorded with a full rock band (except for the closing 11-minute "Desolation Row"), it's the album where he fully committed to electric sound and arrived at something that felt like the cultural moment catching fire. After a handful of stray plays scattered across nearly a decade, it clicked for you in early 2025 — "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Ballad of a Thin Man" leading the way, though you've lived plenty with "Desolation Row" too.