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Bonus Track: Robyn Hitchcock on the Magic of "Desolation Row"

"It’s one of his old songs that he loves to reverse a car over at the moment. "

RAY PADGETT JAN 25 ∙

Robyn Hitchcock at the ‘Going Electric’ concert. Courtesy American Song Archives

Today, my final (very belated) backstage convo from the Bob Dylan Center’s “Going Electric” last summer. Since we spoke, Robyn Hitchcock covered all of John Wesley Harding in Woodstock, which looked like a very fun show! But last summer, we were chatting about the two songs he was performing at Cain’s Ballroom that evening, “Desolation Row” and “Highway 61 Revisited.” “The whole human catastrophe is spelt out there in all its grotesque absurdity.”

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