Romance in Durango

Track 7 of Bob Dylan’s 1976 LP, Desire tells the story of an man and his lover on the run in Mexico. It is one of Dylan’s “outlaw songs” prevalent during this period. The studio version captured in Desire is sedate, even hopeful while the live versions heard in The Bootleg Series, Vol 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 and Biograph are electrifying and more desperate in tone. It is believed to be the last song that Dylan wrote with Jacques Levy.

Writing

Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy

Production

Don DeVito

Covered by

Romance no Deserto (Romance in Durango) — Fagner

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