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Bob Dylan Throws a Wrench Into ‘Desolation Row’
The inscrutable singer’s latest mystery? Playing his songs with household tools.
(Curiously, some of his song choices seem to be in response to recent pop-culture developments, like performing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” for the first time in six years, two weeks after Timmy Chalamet sang it in the trailer for A Complete Unknown.) Toward the end of his set in Darien Center, New York, on Tuesday, Dylan broke out 1965’s “Desolation Row” for the first time since 2019, with the help of … a miniature wrench. Now, this raises a few questions: Did some roadie just leave the wrench there and accidentally inspire the singer to improvise, or did Dylan dispatch someone to Home Depot before the show to acquire it?
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