DESIRE is the seventeenth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on January 5, 1976 by Columbia Records.
It is one of Dylan's most collaborative efforts, featuring the same caravan of musicians as the acclaimed
Rolling Thunder Revue tours the previous year.
Many of the songs also featured backing vocals by Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley.
Most of the album was co-written by Jacques Levy, and is composed of lengthy story-songs, two of which quickly generated controversy: the 11-minute-long Joey, which is seen as glorifying the violent gangster "Crazy Joey" Gallo, and Hurricane, the opening track that tells a passionate account of the murder case against boxer Rubin Carter, whom the song asserts was framed. Carter was released in 1985, after a judge overturned his conviction on appeal.
Below are the songbooks, copyright Ram's Horn Music, 1976.
They include all the songs of the album: Hurricane,
Isis,
Mozambique,
One More Cup Of Coffee,
Oh, Sister,
Joey,
Romance In Durango,
Black Diamond Bay and
Sara.