‘Hurricane’ - Bob Dylan, 1976
Following on from my previous post here, I’m continuing with my fondness for songs that tell stories from start to finish. Today’s song is a protest song taken from the Desire album by Bob Dylan and co-written by Jaccques Levy, who incidentally, co-wrote a lot of the songs with Dylan on Desire, which by the way, gets my vote as Dylan’s best album.
The context of the song is based around a US Boxer called Rubin Carter and his conviction for the murder of three guys in Paterson, New Jersey. After spending 20 years in prison and following numerous appeals Rubin Carter was finally released. There has been several books written about this topic and also a film called The Hurricane which starred Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter. I first heard of Rubin Carter years ago when I read one of the books about him, this was long before I heard the Desire album and found the story very interesting which to this day still sways opinion regarding the guilt or innocence of the man. Check out the song here .
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