Desire

Desire is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in January 1976 through 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 (later documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5) and many of the songs feature 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, who the song asserts was framed. Carter was released in 1985, after a judge overturned his conviction on appeal.