Talkin' Dylan with Andy and Renee

"May I see your references?"  Part 3 - Fellow performers

The  18 th   installment of Talkin’ Bob Dylan,  is entitled ,“'May I see your references?' Part II: Desolation Row". in the l ast episode we made the observation that Bob Dylan likes to refer in his songs to previously established characters, literary, historical and mythological. This week we dive into his mos t  extreme example and posit  that the song is  an apocalyptic, epic poem in which Desolation Row is perhaps an enlightened state of mind rather than a geographical place.